There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer, because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

The more you own the more you know you don't own.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

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