The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

God is alive in each one of us. We just need to bend our knees, hold our hands together and open our hearts to Him.

Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.

It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.

Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it.

Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.

I don't feel I have to top myself at all.

I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.

The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.

I want to be in control of my own destiny.