The French complain of everything, and always.

It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.