The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches

Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.

Your belief about others creates an unconscious behavior pattern in you which creates the reality!

Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect you can see it too. Some of our stars are the same.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts.

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.