“Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.”

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.

How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.

Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

Your thoughts are making you.

Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.

They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.

Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.