You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.

Mediate on the scriptures. It is the well spring of life.

I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive.

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it.

We all only have a certain amount of money and that means yes, we have to make choices and sometimes those choices mean we don't get what we want.

Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise.