One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

You need to be my wife to win with me.

There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities?

The school sent you flowers. I’m sure that totally makes up for the fact that they hired the psychotic, soul-stealing pedophile who murdered you in your own home.

They've kicked our backsides, we've got to lick our wounds...

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.