Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning for what they never really had.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

My primary goal is to create prosperity.

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.