Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

I am grateful in life and online. My gratitude raises my vibration and enhances my joy.

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.

...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

You have to fail and then get better. Then you have to fail again, and then get even better.

I was very studious and square in college.