The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.
Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
If I was to listen and pay attention to everyone that criticized me, I'd stay home under the bed.
You know, I said in the U. N. , I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U. N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.
I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure. . . which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.
Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.