We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.
Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or religion helps solve the problem of how unrelated individuals are to live together without killing each other—by providing them with a bond not based on kinship. Second, it gives people a motive, other than genetic self-interest, for sacrificing their lives on behalf of others.
It is a Chinese tradition that everyone has to be in everyone else's life.
I remember when I was a kid, when I just used to love listening to something again and again and over and over. You know, everybody else got sick of it, but I loved that discovery of music and what it did to my world, to my imagination. And so I started really considering, "Yeah, I've got to do more," for kids, particularly.
It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public.