Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.

A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards

Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258 It is only by forgetting yourself that you can draw near to God.

If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?

Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!

The true nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

What's that got to do with the price of rice in China?

Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.

They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Well said: that was laid on with a trowel. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.

And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair! And they heart the words it said-- Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!