All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses—to smell trouble or just something fishy.

There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, generation to generation.

Knowledge that can make miracles happen needs to be guarded carefully. If it falls into the wrong hands, miracles become disasters in no time.

It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.

A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.

Such delicacies are relationships.

No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him.

When the soul heals, the issues of the body disappear like they never happened.

A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.

You need to be my wife to win with me.

Most of a husband’s life is spent in doing research on his wife.

I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.

Love is that which gives of itself.

Ultimately virility is all about helping others express their reluctantly shared feelings while doing so from a safe distance.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

I like to dip in and out of all sorts of different things. God, if I was asked to be in a show, like a real show, I would be so up for doing that.

The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich have learned to recognize the value of their thoughts.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.