I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
May God deny you peace but give you glory!
Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.
What is vanity but the longing to survive?
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
But what parent can tell when some. . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small seed of information passed from one generation to another may generate a new science, a new industry-a seed which neither the giver nor the receiver can truly evaluate at the time.
You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.
The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.