At what point is normal natural?

We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth.

With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.

Never allow yourself to be sapped of your extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive.

... People who are the spices of this world are the natural souls with instincts and impulses that have not been pruned by evolution and civilization.

Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their own feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters they weave.

Some honest people think it is better to know the ways of the devil without being evil.

The selfish and self-centered have a hard time being kind, even though you and I know that kindness is a source of relief to the soul.

I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don’t know or haven’t made the effort to understand.

Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.

The scrupulous survivors in life are the best counterweight to unscrupulous survivors.

I would rather spend money on something, that fulfills me for eternity. Rather, than something that fulfills me for only an hour or two.

To the determined mind, nothing is impossible

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the way.

If you cannot measure it, then it is not science.

I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.

The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple.