What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Friendship fills your life with the essence of joy and mutual understanding. And some of the best friends in life have more than two legs.

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.

It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.

It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

On health care, your freedom to choose your own doctor, without Obamacare.