Be kind, be all sympathy, For each and every human beingIs forced to fight against himself.

True humility means giving joy to others.

When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad.

Hope is sweet.Hope is illumining.Hope is fulfilling.Hope can be everlasting.Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.

What you powerfully holdIn your thought-worldWill make you eitherA street beggarOr a great king.

Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.

It is less about becoming a better person, and more of being better, as a person.

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.

Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t trick yourself out of it. You’ve just got to own it.

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

I don’t feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.

Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.