That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man.

Joy is the best companion, virtue is the noblest acquaintance, wisdom is the cleverest friend, and love is the kindest soul mate.

African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.

We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil.

Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.

Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.