Fern Naito

Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity–to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,How can I help? How can I help all those that I come into contact with? When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of Dharma.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

When you’re first figuring yourself out, you care so much about what people think of you.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.