All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

Journalism is organized gossip.

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.

At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.