When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

I would parade you in the hall of the monarchs of the ocean if you could breathe water.

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

Truth is non-negotiable and its promise is love.

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

"Reinvention" is a word that doesn't fit into my vocabulary.

Don't make everyone know about your sadness.

The myth of this world is that the way to transformation is through power, but God choose to enter the world in a weak manner, gentle and tender through the heartbeat of a child.

Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character

We divide ourselves up into spirit and human, but essentially we are all a part of the same world.