To be great is to assume great concerns.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.

As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

I thank Thee that many of my prayers have been refused... I have longed for Egypt and have been given a wilderness.

Actresses are so spoilt - we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don't know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that's about it!

I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

Forgiveness. It is beneficial to forgive but better not to condemn in the first place.

If we can know the beauty God is forming in us, we can bear the pain He allows in our lives.

I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

We tend to outdo ourselves.

We learned that what happens when we are alone with the Lord determines how intimate and deep the worship will be when we come together.

As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.