Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.

Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart.

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.

A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.

To each their own. One must live each day so that there are no regrets.

I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God's best way of getting to us. Revelation begins in the flesh.

Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.