It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.

Time should be reproduced and multiplied

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.

The only true and sustainable prosperity is shared prosperity.

If it weren't for God's grace, you and I wouldn't be able to live for even one more minute.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.

The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.

Our seniors shouldn't have to check their stock balance before they can get knee surgery.

I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.