The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.
Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.
We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.
Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.
Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.
A political solution is going to involve neighboring countries... You will have to bring people together to agree on a political process. If that includes supporting a military exercise of some sort without sending troops, that is on the table, as long as this is not the only option that people look at.
Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.
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