Not the power to remember but its very opposite the power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

The chief al Qaeda recruiting tool is the net.

I can't give my phone number out. My phone number would be everywhere - everybody and their mom would be calling me.

I write out of defiance.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

The euro is good for Europe. But only if there is flexibility all around.

We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal.