"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people."

People, Now, Old

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"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people."

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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

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"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."

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"I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it."

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"The road to the sacred leads through the secular."

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"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."

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"God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light."

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"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."

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"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."

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"A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture."

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