The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control.
Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
Character is formed from the repeated choice of thoughts and action. Make the right choice-you shall have a firm and noble character.
What parents inculcate in the child is permanently there because childhood is the most impressionable time of life.
It is inevitable that a tragedy should arouse sorrowful feelings. Still, out of that sorrow itself comes a feeling of triumph – the victory of the human will over the most adverse circumstances. And thus out of sorrow and defeat come joy and victory.
