But a living is not a life.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right, ' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because the is always the thought that everything might be done better and again

We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

I don't like showing my privacy online.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.

Learn diligence before speedy execution.