Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death.

The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing.

Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.

There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.