Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.