The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

Peace is not the absence of chaos. It is the presence of tranquility and joy in the midst of chaos.

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

I never worked in an office in my life.

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

You need to know your faith. You cannot give what you do not have.

You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree and if you don't, people will scorn you for it.

For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do with returning you to some kind of simpler, happier state.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year by 'TIME Magazine?'