Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

I see what I have to become and I recognise the time it will take.

You never know what’s going to be in the garden in June when you’re looking at it in January.

If you were a star you'd be the one I'm searching for

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

Age whitens hairs, but not sin.

It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.

I am the world's oldest teenager. I've never lost my youthful attitude.

Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently.