An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.

Being an idealist is not being a simpleton

What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.

At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.

A warrior has no confusion in his mind...This is true emptiness.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.