The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

Performing magic in the live show thrills me. Just get me a deck of cards and some attentive audience, and I have made my day and theirs too

I pity snails, and all that carry their homes on their backs.

It is fine to be involved in social life and bring life to the community

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

Mobile is no longer about what you can do on your cell phone. Mobile is all about doing more, all of the time.