We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

The peacemaker must have the strongest heart and the toughest will in the room.

The moment we begin to define others and ourselves by how we are different, the seeds of separation are planted.

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget.

Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump.