It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

A universe that can wink into existence can wink out again.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.

Only atheists attempt to comprehend god with their mind.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.

I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.