Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

It's hard to be natural in a scene when you pick up the phone and no one is there.

The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere.

I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.