It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.