Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.

Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.

And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.

The angrier you were, the less likely you were to think clearly.

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

God of the green pastures and the still waters, please don't help me. I want to do it by myself so that You'll know I've found something I can do for You ... I am David. Amen.

Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to let others make up his mind for him...that could only be stupidity.

Instead of asking, “How can I ease my suffering?” yoga would have us ask, “How can I better serve my brothers and sisters?” Because only in answering the latter can we hope to answer the former.

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.

Technology makes good DJ's better, but also allows your average person to think they're a DJ, and unfortunately there's no checks and balances about people making it a career.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

Try things. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it.

Ser sincero en todo momento debe requerir valor. Yo no sabría hacerlo.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.