Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.