Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.

You have left too much of yourself in this land for it not to be yours. I, too, will always be yours, for you have left too much of yourself with me for it to be otherwise.

I had no way of anticipating the adjustments I would have to make and the suffering I would have to endure in the months and years ahead.

I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is: I did it to overcome fear.

Most people spend their lives going to bed when they're not sleepy and getting up when they are!

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.

Every good that you do, every good that you say, every good thought you think, vibrates on and on and never ceases. The evil remains only until it is overcome by good, but the good remains forever.

It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.

Despair is a natural emotion.

Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark

I dont really believe in regrets.