And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

If you want change you must take full responsibility for yourself. No one else defines how you live. You are the only one with the power for your self-change.

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.

Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.

It is only through dialogue, deep listening, and passionate disagreement that we find our way to something larger than a singular and isolated point of view.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

I know there's life after the Olympics.

I’m a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I’m a tired person.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

Destiny cuts the cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.