And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.

You are magnificent and unique. Love yourself and stay unique and you will beautify this world with your unique art of life.

the matured understands mistakes as a necessary growth path to maturity

Attitude is what you do effortlessly.

Whatever you would have your children become strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.

I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.