Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

I am no enemy of Nepal being a fully literate society. It is a good thing for society and the nation as a whole.

If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.

I'm alone and nobody is in the mirror

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn't doing it and that gives me a little edge

A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.