Principle II: The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions:;: they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ignore conditions which exist.

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.

And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

Art is life, plus caprice.

Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.

Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of it.

Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Sometimes it's not always straightforward, but it's not always confusing either. You just have to respect a person's decisions without disrespecting them.

I believe that our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there's a gain. Sometimes we're so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

I can't even imagine what it's like to run for 5 or 6 hours.

In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.