It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Make hope a way toward optimism

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.

Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.

It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught. We are saved by Jesus Himself.

I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain.

Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.