All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

War is the health of the state.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

Be where you are

There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.

When a person becomes aware of their genius and they live it and they give generously from it, they change the world, they affect the world. And when they depart everyone knows something is missing.

Your smile is a magnet for goodwill and positivity. In unison with your attitude, people gravitate to happy people!

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt.

I like getting up early. I get up around five.

Treat the world the way you want to be treated.

It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.