The life of this world and the hereafter, in the heart of a person are like the two scales of a balance, when one becomes heavier, the other becomes lighter

The Lord God is my hope, my joy and my strength.

Your thoughts define your life.

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.

Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything.

I don't think that the Soviet Union and China are accidents, aberrations; I think they follow from Marxism-Leninism. I think that Leninism comes out of Marx's basic convictions.

The trouble with 'a place for everything and everything in its place' is that there's always more everything than places.