There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.

[Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.

Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.