Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

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.

You need something more from me—something I wasn't able to give you before.

Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.

You're in a combat zone one day. You come home, and then you have to readjust, and it takes a few days. We just sit in the house, hang with the family and then things get better.

Expression is the dress of thought.

It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.

You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them!

In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be that demand. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Faith without works is as dead as a doornail.

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.