"Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly."

"The course of life is unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance."

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

"Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed."

"However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner ... sulking and nausea."

"Reality is only just a word."

"Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning."

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."

"Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace."

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man."

"God is merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come."

"The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence."