The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

I am always in quest of being open to what the universe will bring me.

We are awash in the revealed world.

Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position.

I thought, I'm going to die. And, thinking that, I was determined to live.

The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

This economy doesn't work well without the lubrication of credit and trust.