I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

Grief dares us to love once more.

I found, as every teacher does, that there is nothing like teaching to help one learn.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.

I just often find myself getting shrill, angry and the jokes get more incredulous.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions - the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base.

The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

All things come to those who wait.