It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.

Peace begins with a smile..

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards.

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.