Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

When I try to write in English, I feel like a bird without wings still trying to fly.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

We encountered many hardships. With hope, we find the strength to endure.

You are God’s design to decorate this world. You are a repertoire of wisdom and an encyclopedia of God’s knowledge.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of.

Few years ago I did a movie, Good Kill, about drone pilots and for four or five months I'm obsessed with the Air Force.

God is action - let us be like God.

We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are down we close the office door and compute with matrices like fury.

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

Where love is deep, much can be accomplished.