Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

God of the green pastures and the still waters, please don't help me. I want to do it by myself so that You'll know I've found something I can do for You ... I am David. Amen.

Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to let others make up his mind for him...that could only be stupidity.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

We are what we build

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert knowledge, and so on.

Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

I'm afraid that if I raced you on the street I'd push you to your death.

Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.