Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker's certainty in himself becomes stronger.

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies.

They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth, the sounds of living people.

Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false.

It's always worrying to see a journalist take a sudden interest in what you're saying, especially when you half suspect it was a load of pigeon guano.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

God does not pay at the end of every day, but in the end He pays.

The brain is a body part too; we just know less about it.

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

I was never afraid of failure. I realized that I was responsible for my own success and that every day offers a new beginning and I was confident in my ability to improve.

Your past determines your future unless you’re clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.

Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.