Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

An adversity is an opportunity to exercise and maximize your creativity.

I was grateful to Ben the way you are grateful to someone who is unexpectedly kind.

As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck it is.

you can die of the wrong thought as quick as of a bullet.

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.