Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.

Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.

The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

I'm so not a party person. I'm so not social and don't go to parties.

You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials.

When a scientist says something, his colleagues must ask themselves only whether it is true. When a politician says something, his colleagues must first of all ask, 'Why does he say it?

Anything good that we do is because of God. Whenever we get our eyes off of Him we crash and burn.

That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

I think that the ability of people to accept new things is growing, and that's good for all of us.

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.