Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven, Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator, And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.

It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.

To my astonishment I saw him standing at a table with Kitty Jones. It was the Kitty Jones bit that was astonishing. Not the table. Though it was very nicely polished.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.

Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.