There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.

Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.

The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.

Life, oblivious to his grief, continued

It's funny how things work out.Trouble is, I'm still not laughing.

A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being.

For the most part, what we think of as 'I' is nothing more than a whole heap of conditioning.

Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent.

One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.

I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.

I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.

I tell kids not to be on the Internet. It's dangerous. It's not fun. It wastes your life. You should just be outside playing sports, instead of sitting in front of any type of screen.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.