Difficulty adds to result, as the ramming of powder sends the bullet the further.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Then how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one

A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places?

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.

It seems the public in Europe has not yet learnt that most girls in India today go to school.

There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.

Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.