I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

The candle cannot burn without fire, similarly, your spiritual greatness cannot be measured without hardships

Respect for Human rights preserves us as A nation.

Nietzsche lampooned the romantics of his day (a half century later), noting that "they muddy the waters to make them look deep.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God.

Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.