When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

He wanted to regain his memory, but not if it cost him Victoria. He would give up everything for her.

The feeling that something good will happen must always be kept alive!

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you.

The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.