one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

Everybody would be a dictator if he could.

Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project.

Prayer need not be an activity we engage in for only an hour each morning. Rather, let us live in the atmosphere of prayer, our hearts continually being lifted up in prayer to Him.

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep easy.

Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.

What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.

The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.

Mathematically speaking, it seems impossible that there isn't life out our planet. If you flick on the news, it certainly seems like we have aliens among us.