Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of the act.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

A daily practice of how you shall live in heaven, here on earth, is a good qualification plan to get to heaven

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.

Sometimes I look around cable news and it's like you wonder whether you're looking at anchors or authors.

They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be.

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years.

Being "fearless" isn't about being unafraid, it's about being TERRIFIED and still going for it.