Belief is not truly belief while doubt can still touch it.

A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.

All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.

When you are on a journey, and the end keeps getting further and further away, then you realize that the real end is the journey.

For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.

A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.

The sensibilities and the emotions of Muslims must be taken into consideration in the context in which we live today.

Diplomacy - the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

If we ever walk in streets paved with gold, we will have placed it there ourselves.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.

I'm sort of in this rhythm where we want to make the most of the time we have, but when it's done it will be time for it to be done.

Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love to work together," and sometimes you never hear from them again.