Let us not have puny thoughts. Let us think on a greater scale. Let us not have those of the future decry our smallness of concept and lack of foresight.

Let us be guardians, not gardeners

The strongest inpression remaining with me after watching the wolves...was their friendliness towards each other.

A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.

Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For one thing, Aristotle and Aquinas never watched television.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike and I think that's a matter of education and preparation and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

Dont let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally.

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.

Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

A pause came between them, and it was so full of Akiva that Karou imagined she could smell him.

I look back at things I said when I was younger - it was bulls - t. You do what you have to do to go where you have to go, but I look back and I don't believe what that guy was saying.

Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.