Our humanity consists in our ability to sense and respect and respond to the humanity of others.

Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.

Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?

There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.

Honest self-understanding liberates us from our stuck emotions.

When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them.

We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing.

He hugged her hard. "I love you. My life is so much better with you in it than out of it.

Reflection and learning are lifelong processes...

...the bones of cirrus clouds stand out like ribs against the sky - an angel is stretching...

Every organization should strive to achieve the 3 Rs of Business: Everyone doing the Right things, Doing them Right, and at the Right time.

Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.

You have to decide at the end of the day if you can live with yourself.

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].