A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Our true nationality is mankind.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.