Better an ugly duckling from your own village than a beauty from foreign parts.
One day before you is better than ten years behind you.
To quarrel with a man of good speech is better than to converse with a man who does not speak well.
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
On the ethics of war the Quran and the New Testament are worlds apart. Whereas Jesus tells us to turn the other cheek, the Quran tells us, 'Whoso commits aggression against you, do you commit aggression against him' (2:194). The New Testament says no...
The instinctive attraction of the daughters of high society to noble ideals was probably reinforced by an idea that, in dedicating themselves to the Church, they could escape the sometimes grim realities of marriage. It was not only the problem of vo...
This was the geography around which my reality revolved: it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that a man was capable of change or that the world could be a better place through one’s taking pleasure in a feeling or a look or a ges...
How do text messages make you feel existential? I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before sending it out to the world. They can make themselves seem more well spoken than they are, or funnier, smarter. I start thinking...
The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And one more demand: I expect the novelist to aspire to improve the world. ... As a novelist, I want to be more than one more dog barking at the other dog...
The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.
I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father b...
I change the world, the world changes me.
I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.
Two scorpions living in the same hole will get along better than two sisters in the same house.
Better to do a kindness near home than go far away to burn incense.
It is better to save your innocence at the expense of your honor than your country at the expense of your life.
There is no better sale than when you give a true friend what he needs.
It is better to ride for half a year on a good horse than to spend your entire life riding on a mule.
To have two eyes can be cause for pride; but to have one eye is better than to have none.
You can better drink from a small well with soft water than from the salty sea.
