I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

What is a goal without a purpose?

How can the boy who stirred an entire nation be dying?

Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.

Put a pair of high heels on a fellow and just look what he was reduced to.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.

Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every time you move it hurts, that is a real battle.