Language is a weapon, keep it honed!

A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates.

The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate.

Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.

Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.

The Lord's capacity to forgive a person who is truly repentant is without limit, without qualification

By the time he was done with the deer it had been dark three hours and his bad leg was singing 'Ave Maria'.

All work is service. If you aren't serving in your work, you really aren't working.

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are

A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.

When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.

The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way 'round.