My actions to promote peace the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts which very often occurred between brothers of the same country are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical questioning and often angry patriotism.

During times of war hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent rebellion and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Teach us O Lord the disciplines of patience for to wait is often harder than to work.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

What lingers from the parent's individual past unresolved or incomplete often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

I often get letters quite frequently from people who say how they like the programmes a lot but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

I think that in today's world by nature we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Nature is often hidden sometimes overcome seldom extinguished.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear whereas everyone understands words. With me it is exactly the opposite and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

Music is emotional and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.