Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind.
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.
Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.
The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.
Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.
It doesn't matter whether you're black or white, practice a different religion, come from a different culture, or have a disability. If you're different from most of the people you're surrounded by, some people might not be as tolerant as they should be.
I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.