Whenever we see someone with great ability we naturally think that such ability is a free gift; he or she was, in other words, born with it. That may be true. But it is more likely that those “gifts” were earned by painstaking effort, here a little, there a little –it is like everything else, a process of growth.


The manufacture of a multitude of words often are used to cover up a multitude of sins.


Do not be deceived into thinking that you are now clean merely because you’ve washed your hands of the whole thing.


Be careful when you roll a pebble down a hill. You may start an avalanche.


Generosity in one thing does not remove niggardliness in another. Neither does remembrance of one thing negate forgetfulness in another.


Our lost faith cannot erase the effect of our past faith. Well, on second thought that aphorism needs to be pondered. It may be true in one sense but not in another. The trails we leave behind may or may not make clear the road ahead.


Recognize that sometimes there is a whole lot of love in a very big challenge.


To lose one’s sense of belonging is to lose one’s sense of Life. To gain, therefore, perspective, ask yourself this question: To whom, or what, do I choose to belong?


Sometimes, what we are so desperately searching for has already been found.


Deprivation often leads to magnification. But we have to wait and endure before it manifests.


Refining fire means we may be burned. Of course we do not like it because it is painful. But, the burning may be necessary in order to burn away the chaff.


What may be inexplicable to us now may be explicable later. In the meantime we will go through a lot of irony, paradox, injustice and unfairness. Maybe those trials are the tools which at last render what is now inexplicable explicable, and not our categories of rationality.


Do not let our darkest hours eclipse our finest hours.


The fact that we sometimes feel dark, and lonely, and unloved, bespeaks what a high order of species we are.