Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.