Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.

Failure is doing nothing.

Unfair and unkind behavior in exchange for your loving efforts is the rule rather than the exception

When Mother Nature turns on us, I hope that she doesn't show the same compassion that we, humans, show to the environment and all the other life here on Earth.

Have peace in your heart to find peace in the outer world.

We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.

[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.

A good messenger expects to get shot.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.