Challenge each problem you face with purposeful thought and determined action. Resolve that 'every' situation you encounter will make you better, stronger, wiser, more skillful and more loving.

When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.

We are rich only through what we give and poor only through what we refuse.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.

Guilt soon learns to lie.

History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.

After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.