Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City

Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important

I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.

I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

If you're lucky to have three close people in your life, you're blessed.

Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.