If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

Analogy of scientist who try to reach the higher speed: A child ant is tired after the long walk in a body of a jet. It tries to find a method of traveling faster than walking.

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your taste.

We were elected to serve our districts, and that demands putting bygones aside. That's what leadership's all about.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

There's no smoke without mud being flung around.

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

Faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and charity - those are the tools God gave me. Ad I keep circling around it.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT.