Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

We are stuck on the obvious of this world, and it so fills our minds and our beings that there is little room for anything else, even if that "obvious" is merely a small part of what is real.

The only person to blame for your situation is you.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

Lasse [Hallström] is really good at emotionally engaging an audience without hitting them over the face with it.

I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself.

Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me.

A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.