If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

..Imam Ali [A]..'However knows himself (his soul or spirit) knows [or has known] his Lord

They (the press) have a hatred of Manchester United.

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street.

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work.