We have to fight them daily like fleas those many small worries about the morrow for they sap our energies.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.

Could I pick some flowers for Miranda?’ I asked.‘You cannot take these flowers, ’ said Zoran. ‘They belong to the government.

Your trustworthiness quotient depends on your transparency ratio.

Always believe in yourself because you never know, your time could be now.

He's unconventionally attractive and yet coincidentally everything I've ever wanted.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

We sing because we're happy and happy because we sing

"Simpler is always better" is an overstatement.

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.