Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

To open a closed door, use kindness as your key.

Money will make you more of what you already are. If you're not a nice person, money's going to make you a despicable individual. If you're a good person, money's going to make you a better person.

I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.

I am lucky enough to be married to a guy who tells me I look beautiful every day.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Learn to ne happy with what you have.

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more.

Sorry to disappoint you but I don’t even watch the Olympics no more.