Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.