No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

I am who I am', said God to Moses regarding His name, because none was worth to be compared to His godhead.

As a writer, a poet, you’re not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.

It became evident, that in Paris, only one man could fulfil Heloise’s educational needs, Peter (or as the French called him, Pierre) Abelard, a thirty-seven year old philosopher and teacher

If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing.

Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

The White Mars [project] is a bold move that will add significantly to our understanding of how to deal with the challenge of human exploration of the Red Planet.