Half a truth is better than no politics.

Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.