The real distinction between being great and being less great seems to be the extent to which we are willing to be pushed along by our own desires.

War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore.

It is not enough to read many books, you have to read the right ones.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.

I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion.

... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.

We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

You read nothing if you dare not giving any judgement.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

Your friends may influence your decisions even more than your parents will.