The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.

There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, generation to generation.

Availability of knowledge is only next to prevalence of stupidity in its overwhelming abundance.

Knowledge that can make miracles happen needs to be guarded carefully. If it falls into the wrong hands, miracles become disasters in no time.

It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.

A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.

Such delicacies are relationships.

No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him.

When the soul heals, the issues of the body disappear like they never happened.

A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.

All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses—to smell trouble or just something fishy.

What people can get you or do for you will never replace a person that will influence you to be a better person.

To have the spirit of youth and the wisdom from age. Is to have used the eternal fountain of life within our very souls. Not for an instant but for a lifetime. Amen.

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.

This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat content.

Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life.... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.

If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.

I like keeping my mind as far away from money and the material aspects of my job as possible.

Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.