the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.

in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.

It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.

If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.

Trading is injurious to your wealth. If you are smoking you may die in 20-30 years whereas by trading, this may happen the very next day.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

You can't get unfamous. You can get infamous but you can't get unfamous.

There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.

And the guelder rose In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped, Her wealth about her feet.

[On her first meeting with he ex-husband, Steven Seagal:] He reminded me of an alien.

Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?