Those who've been rescued from sin are best able to help in the rescue of others.

There is no better test of a man's integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.

...love must feel the ego of the beloved person as important as one's own ego, and must realize the other's feelings and wishes as though they were one's own.

We celebrate beauty in life and all its possibility so we open it up for others and at the same time for ourselves.

Travel is ninety per cent anticipation and ten per cent recollection.

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

As a kid, I loved to play centerfield. I loved to make diving catches.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.