The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the soil, the water and the sun.

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

If you cannot change, why you expect others to change?

Life will test you, hurt you, betray you, break you, swallow you, shatter you... but as long as it doesn't leave you, you still have a shot.

God uses the problem in the life of every man for his good

The shock of recognition is a moment of excitement that shakes the soul. It may be hard to describe, but like other forms of love, you will know it when you feel it

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.

Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.