The frivolous work of polished idleness.

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.

Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.

the hope is smallbut it is everything.

Pray with expectation to get an answer.

Obstacles accelerate transformation

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.

The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important.

I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living in a moment that has lost attachment to the ideology behind boundaries.

Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.

I'm an easy date, as someone would say!