A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.

Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.

No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world.

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.

Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.

Being sincere, dedicated and honest is the key. People of integrity triumph in the end.

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

I want to be known as a good major-leaguer, and good major-leaguers work to become good.

The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

You've got to be creative in acting business. But I need people to believe in me first. I've got to make my name as an actor.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.

The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

The way to write well is to live intensely.