For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering, " a deep healing begins.

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.

Wherever a man lives, he may live well.

A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.

Joy arises only in creating joy for others; there is no other way. The more people you can make happy, the more you will feel happy. This is the real meaning of service.

It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films.

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.

Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies.