To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for every state of the person is pointed in the direction of future possibilities.

Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.

Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.

People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

God may have mercy, but we won't.

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.

Those who don't try never look foolish.

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.