Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

An epigram a day keeps the mind from going astray.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.

I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country.

I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.

The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors.

Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.