Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

Your life is made up of your dreams and your realities, your expectations and your possibilities.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.

If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.