God has created the world in play.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The greatest prayer is patience.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.