Charity is an eternal debt and without limit.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.

A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.

Zeal is very blind or badly regulated when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

The statue of the Laughing Buddha act as a good friend. Whenever we are off the track, his smiling face can bring us back to the present moment, to a positive mood.

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

"All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.

Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.

Optimism is cowardice.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.