"Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge."

“Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.”

“Within each piece, I create an intriguing balance between jewelry and the body, and an intensity which draws others to it.”

“I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.”

“God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.”

Source : Paul Tournier (1982). “Reflections: a personal guide for life's most crucial questions”, Westminster John Knox Press

“Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.”

Source : Amy Bloom (2010). “Love Invents Us”, p.198, Vintage

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”

“Those [American Jews] who favor the [Israeli] attack on Gaza are certainly guilty of such overwhelming emotional and cultural attachment to Israel and Israelis, that they long ago ceased viewing this conflict with any remnant of objectivity.”

“Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.”

Source : Recalled on his death, 20 Apr1982.