The Divine wisdom has given us prayer not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation attention perseverance and industry.

I believe we have become paralyzed paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep too grave to laugh and too selfish to seek other than itself.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

The war on terror if this is a war on terror can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.

Moreover war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.