Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

There is no "the way things are." Every day is different, and you live it differently.

Stress can destroy much more than just our physical health. Too often, it eats away at our hope, belief, and faith.

Just don't be afraid of your mistakes because those mistakes can be the best way how to learn to do it right.

The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.

Three weeks ago one of my dreams came true. I finally got to see something I always wanted to witness live. I finally saw someone get hit by a car... Nailed!

April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon.

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

This day boldness is manifested in a simple grace: gratitude.

We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased.

Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.