Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.

You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.

You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.

This world owes us nothing. Existence is not indebted to us. Humanity lives under this misconception that we deserve life’s blessings, that we deserve happiness. But in truth, life owes us nothing

Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

Save when you can and not when you have to.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

I work out a lot - five, six, days a week. I take yoga classes and go to the gym - I love doing it and I have the time to do it. Not everybody has that option.