Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.

Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.

Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret.

Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either.  There's both sweet and sour in every day.  So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful?  Concentrate on the good.

You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.

What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.

No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.

World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams.

With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.

Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.

Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.

In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high!

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

Geologists claim that although the world is running out of oil, there is still a 200-hundred-year supply of brake fluid.

Any time someone says you have an opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese you jump at the chance.

The Republican establishment, the mainstream corporate financial wealth, is getting to a point where it can't control the base it's mobilized.

The more [people] know about the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the less they support it.