Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

You wouldn't get rid of the Mona Lisa just because someone painted another picture of a woman smiling.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

Nothing comes from doing nothing.