Education is the transmission of civilization.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

You talk to leadership in China, and THEY are all the engineers. They get what is going on immediately. The Americans don't because they're all lawyers.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.

I could stare at you for a lifetime. It would never grow old." "Even when I'm old?" "Even then.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.

So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.

Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.

And step by step You'll lead me / And I will follow You all of my days.

Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.