A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

You only get fulfillment when you work in your land of promise

There is no need to worry about whether you are capable of manifesting what you want. The truth is, the universe already is providing you exactly what you have asked.

The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control.

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

Because I was never a 'where do you see yourself in five years' person. I had no idea, and I didn't have a checklist, which really creates a lot less stress in your life.

... Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus?

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.