It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
The benefits of forgiveness are limitless.
Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living.
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.