It’s strange how necessary it is to have problems to be able to prepare for avoiding future disasters.

There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, generation to generation.

Knowledge that can make miracles happen needs to be guarded carefully. If it falls into the wrong hands, miracles become disasters in no time.

It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.

A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.

Such delicacies are relationships.

No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him.

When the soul heals, the issues of the body disappear like they never happened.

A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.

All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses—to smell trouble or just something fishy.

You need to be my wife to win with me.

The reason some people put on a mask is not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon.

Grief doesn't have a face.

For all I know, the guy is Dracula.

Well thank you, me old gobbler,' said Mr. Gum handing over some money that Billy William would later discover to be made out of lies and broken promises.

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.

A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida.

A script is like a theory of a movie.

Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny, and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.