When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. . . . In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
We have come to see how great is the unexplored.
Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.
Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think.
In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat. , Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est Externis virtus incomitata bonis. ]