True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

A work of art is an exaggeration.

The color of truth is gray.