Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing—in tune!—and the audience loved it.Eartha Kitt, when asked what tricks her poodle did.

It is not so important what deeds we do when times are good, but what good we do in bad times.

Bez blew out a breath and leaned heavily against the bar. "Honestly, D, you're better off busting your subversive cherry with something else. A nice werewolf killing. A vampire blood drive.

-I am alergic to these flowers.-I know.

When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.

Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?

It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.