“I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.”

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

We are trying to urge North Korea to abandon their nuclear development program.

Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Families are a kind of leaven that helps to make the world more humane and more fraternal, where no one feels rejected or abandoned.

If you’re sick, if you’re struggling, if you’re worried about how you’re going to get through the day – we will not abandon you. We will not leave you to face these challenges alone.

The Lord does not abandon us! Even if we are men and women ‘of little faith.