Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

How strange that as I'm dying, you're calmly alive.

An idle mind doesn't do justice to its potential

The Bible condemns the use of any substance which alters or distorts our thinking (including alcohol, which was the most common drug in ancient times).

Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.

The love you seek is seeking you at this moment.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

All da ladies love Leo!!