A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honour of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.