A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.

A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.

The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.

You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time

Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.