Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.

The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.

Contraries are cured by contraries.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

He (God) doesn't need me, but He desires me.