To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

I have never had a NY resolution. While you wait each year to make a resolution you never commit to, I get it done everyday.

Your views are as narrow as your tie.

Wholeness invokes balance.

Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.

I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.

We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.