Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Owes unions who endorsed him; that's why he's in politics.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

Apparently President Obama's favorite cocktail is a martini. When asked how he likes it, he said, 'On the beach, in Hawaii, in 2017.'

If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more.

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.