The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

With Christ, I can endure every suffering,

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.

All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to.

Most people have the blindness of new-born things - a not-incurable blindness, the sight being there but its use not known.

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.

Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

All of the previously described techniques can be practiced with your eyes open and closed. Most people find that it is easier initially to practice meditation with their eyes closed.

Lucky to have been where I have been

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.