Honest self-understanding liberates us from our stuck emotions.

Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.

Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?

There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.

Our humanity consists in our ability to sense and respect and respond to the humanity of others.

When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them.

We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing.

It was a curious day, slashed abruptly with fleeting, familiar impressions.

Few people are spoken of in the way they would choose

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

As President, I am determined to offer leadership to overcome our current economic problems. My goal is for jobs for all who want to work and economic opportunity for all who want to achieve.

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

If it respected religion, Israel would have transferred these synagogues back to its territory.

Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.