If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.

Always stay one step a head, unless you’re already there

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same.

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.

[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.