Every generation is inculcated in traditions of prejudice which are encouraged as normal, natural and healthy.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more

She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew this before she did.

She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

Remember, when the writers refer to themselves as 'we' and to the reader as 'you,' this is two against one.

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.

When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.