Strategically Placed Letters

One warm mother-kiss dried the little wet eyes and stilled the little troubled heart.

Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.