Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

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.

Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.

Why does it seem that the church is more interested in people involvement rather than people engagement.

Everywhere in these days men have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish.

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.

The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.