I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.

Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.

The soul ... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.

Timing's mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you've got to start over. Do it right.

Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.

I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.

Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy as long as you know how you should always destroy the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend who never stands up for you when you’re forced to bend

The act of making a decision can propel you along for a while, even if you never do anything.

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters.

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

Life seems to be a choice between two wrong answers.

Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.