My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: 'In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.'

Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was …

Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human be…

[Gross national product] measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Suc…