For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

And, in the endThe love you takeis equal to the love you make.

Maybe I should tell her that things without meaning are the most beautiful ones. It’s a good sentence, she’ll like it.

None of us deserve God's forgiveness. The Bible says to forgive because God forgave us. It doesn't say anything about deserving it or even asking for it.

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.

Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question.

What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.