Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

As long as I win I'm doing something right.

We need a lifetime ban on government officials lobbying for a foreign government.

Nothing is given so willingly as advice.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.