Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything.

Discipline is more about self-control through your inner strength and less about restriction.

Time they say is a great healer, but in this case, I am not sure that is true.

If you haven’t been made uncomfortable by the teachings of Jesus, you probably haven’t understood them.

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.

Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

What is fear but courage's shadow?

I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.

I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us. I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person