The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.