Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly

Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.

We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.