People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population — ah, that’s proof of pure political genius.

Strong people make as many and as ghastly mistakes as weak people. The difference is that strong people admit them, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.