The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Courage is grace under pressure.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.