"There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on."

“To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.”

“Can you call a farm with a dozen geese a farm? Still, it was a little better for the Jews in Czechoslovakia. There were only two pogroms there. What's two pogroms?”

Source : "Testament to a Lost People" by Herbert Mitgang, New York Times, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 1983.

“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”

Source : Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

“I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.”

“Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist mostly of malice and pride, it is necessary to treat everyone who suffers from the malady of sin with kindness and love. This is an important truth, which we often forget. Very often we act in the opposite manner: we add malice to malice by our anger, we oppose pride with pride. Thus, evil grows within us and does not decrease; it is not cured - rather it spreads”

“I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.”

“Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres.”

“As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.”

Source : Thomas Guthrie (1865). “Man and the Gospel”, p.21