How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

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.

I am a follower of Jesus and a student of the Buddha. Why is that so hard for my fellow Christians to grasp?

Death is just another path to take, as real as morning.

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are.

I don't believe that your phone should be an assistant.

With a lot of people you think you want to work with, you reach out to them about working and then realize you don't want to anymore because they're a complete dickhead.

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door. She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side. Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.