Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

Cover the earth, before it covers you.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

Believe you can and you will.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

There will come a time when the Ministry of Health is the only Ministry we can afford to have and we still won't be able to afford the Ministry of Health

Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there.

The person who had the greatest influence in my life was my dad, who was a wonderful small businessman, devoted to his family, devoted to the local church.

You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.