If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

I will be forever grateful to Dora Brooking, for not only spotting my light bulb but also helping me turn up the wattage.

We praise God, not because he needs our praise (for all glory resides in and on him), but in order to see him more clearly, enlarge our soul, and relieve our spirit.

Go somewhere people only dream of in their most wildest imagination.

...love's shadow is jealousy.

The girl behind the scrawled letters. I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still.” - Will Herondale

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.