People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

Don’t just do the obvious and predictable stuff, be remarkable!

Many of the differences that cause students to be excluded in school are actually the same qualities or skills that other people are going to admire, respect or value about that person in adulthood.

As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?

Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.