Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

A real friend sees past the trouble and into your heart

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.

Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Before we can pray for God's blessing, we should ask ourselves if our disobedience could hinder his blessing.

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.

True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.

Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.