It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

There is no beauty without order.

It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.