Adversity introduces a man to himself.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.