Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

Through knowledge we gain power over our lives. With options we have possibility. With acceptance we find a new freedom.

I think life becomes a fabric of choices, interwoven, all related... I split my life into these two things, thief and lady

We are religious by nature.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

When it comes to forks in the road, your heart always knows the answer, not your mind.

Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

Stop wondering if you're good enough. Know you are, and start acting like it.

See my eyes - are they safe? Are they even sane?

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.