The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

You are God's chisel

Money and machines anesthetize neediness. They put us in charge, in control. As long as the money holds out and the machines are in good repair, we don't need to pray.

When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space.

The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

I love all things Christmas.

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

I learned I could live more than one life in a lifetime.

I've never committed to a role without a script.

Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.