Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one.

The burden is equal to the horse's strength.

Ambition destroys its possessor.

Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.

A wife is the joy of a man's heart.

When love is strong a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.

Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.

If I am not for myself who will be for me? If I am not for others who am I for? And if not now when?

Where love is no room is too small.

He who prays for his neighbors will be heard for himself.

The sun will set without thy assistance.

The more you learn, the more you want to learn.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

A library is infinity under a roof.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.

Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible.

Cristiano is better than Messi, without a doubt. He's more of an all-round player