My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
