Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Mockery is not just the interest of children

He was in the right place. He was living his best life. How many other people in the multiverse could say that?

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?

You don't need to worry, though. He's not my type." "I don't think I've ever heard a girl say that before," said Simon. "I thought Jace was the kind of guy who was everyone's type.

The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

Always remember that your success begins inside you: If you can't see it first, no one else ever will.

People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.

Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.