"The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion."

"Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know."

"Peace of heart is the greatest luxury life can bestow upon the mortal traveler. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a steadfast truth that a visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future."

"I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife."

"Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity."

"Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is."