If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
I tried to smile like I wasn't about to die.
Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.
The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.
Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.
It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.
Just because you don't see me doesn't mean I wasn't there
Love for yourselves means [in the end] love for everything.
Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
When I first prepared this particular talk. . . I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.