The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.