You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a ‚crank.‘

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

My reputation grows with every failure.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.