Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

Everything depends on upbringing.

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.

Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.

The mind...the mind was the most powerful force for and against someone.

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

Here in the U.S., we've made democracy into a science. A cold, impersonal science.

Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do.

Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.