No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Resilience is rooted in habits we can cultivate and change.

I’m sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help.” “I feel responsible.

Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing.

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing, and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.

America's dumpsters should not be better fed than its people.

The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.