You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.