If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

The woe of wrath comes to whoever does wicked acts.

Suddenly you realize that you are the mother of the Universe, eager to protect, transform and care every soul of the world.

Seems like people always want to think they're doomed. It brings them some kind of black comfort, I guess.Nate

I am just a leaf. Just a leaf falling from the tree so that a new bud may grow.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.

The consensus we arrived with States for amending the Constitution to implement GST is a major breakthrough. This alone has the potential to make India competitive and attractive for investment.

It is blessedness for yourself and others if you are happy.

Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.