the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

If I can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition I have is nothing but talk! Luffy must be the man who becomes the Pirate King!Roronoa Zoro

Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.

Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

No regrets, only choices.

Prayer is the preview of God's action.

Playing with your spouse on the golf course runs almost as great a marital risk as getting caught playing with someone else's anywhere else.