The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Monkeys can rip your face off.

When conservative judges strike down laws, it's because of what's in the Constitution. When liberal judges strike down laws (or impose new laws), it's because of what's in the New York Times

A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.

Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.

I am still full of ambition.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.

You'll find a way. You'll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can't, you'll have friends who will.

The willingness to listen and act on your inspiration is imperative if you're going to live the life you desire.