Force is always beside the point when sublety will serve.

Whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object.

DURANTE: They are eighteen year olds in half centenarians’ bodies.

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

I grow spiritually when I accept responsibility for my life.

Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

What people in Burma need is a democratic federal Burma that guarantees autonomy, rights and protection for all, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion or race.