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"The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book."
"Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals."
"God does not measure everything by numbers or dimensions. He has another scale of values, according to which-asJesus Himself told us-one human soul is worth more than the entire universe."
"One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can."
"Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you."
"The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority."
"Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?"
"Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience."
"Who does not grow, declines."
"Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does."
"Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved."
"A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive."
"I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does."
"Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me."
"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere."
"Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?"
"Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin."
"So little of what could happen does happen."
"WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today's PEACE."
"Though prayer doesn't change God's mind or God's purposes, prayer does change something- It changes us."
