Win with humility; lose with grace.

Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.

Nothing recedes like success.

Fear not death, for it is your destiny.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarf's in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures.

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

We treat this world of ours as though we had a spare in the trunk.

Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.

What really matters is what happens in us- not to us.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

...the fog is rising.

Feast of Matthias the Apostle I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest and frequent in them, who gives not alms according to his ability.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

For us, murder is once for all forbidden... It makes no difference whether one take away the life once born, or destroy it as it comes to birth. He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

Enough ants can eat an elephant.