Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand the facts of the real world. Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset, and the most powerful force available for the transformation of human suffering.

They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.

Gifted people of discernment, intelligence, and talent flourish in virtually every occupation. Every field produces perceptive and prescient persons whom exhibit the rare capacity to observe what eludes most people.

Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.

Do not despise the water droplets that you receive, soon it will be a river.

People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish

True freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave

If you think you can't, you're wrong and right

We are looking for value, guidance, advice, inspiration; for someone to show us the way. When we find him, he is our hero

True understanding lies beyond the desert

Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you

You are what you believe

Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it

A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them

If there is no reward, there is no reason to run

Know the laws before you break them

Please others and you please yourself

Calm is the best revenge

Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married couples to have sex

You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster

If you want an abscess to cure you must press it hard

It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong

It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great

Even if you are not evil, pretend to be. It will put off some abuse

The hardest thing is a man to truly know himself

Life is a sweet sour adventure. When you want to go it becomes sweet, when you remain, it becomes sour

The problem with satisfaction is it's a bottomless pit

Forget about the great astounding victory. Focus on winning small victories every day, the final victory will come by itself

You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there

The greatest wisdom is to be happy

One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much cleverer" people; though head to toe he was infected with the desire to be original. But this class of person, as we have observed above, is far less happy than the first. The difficulty is that the intelligent "ordinary" man, even if he does imagine himself at times (and perhaps all his life) a person of genius and originality, nevertheless retains within his heart a little worm of doubt, which sometimes leads the intelligent man in the end to absolute despair. If he does yield in this belief, he is still completely poisoned with inward-driven vanity.