He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

Don't tell me that I can't do it. Go and tell God that story. After all, He is the one who gave me the air to breath and be able to do it well! Go!

White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.

If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!

I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

Text without context is pretext.