It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray."

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.

Always take a job that is too big for you.

Sometimes, we need to accept that life doesn’t always go the way we planned.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

Gammy used to say "Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things."

You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery - and there's not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it-that's how liars are.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.

The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.

I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don't want me around much.