Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Ideas are the root of creation.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

Your intentions create your experiences.

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

A failed Iraq in the heart of the Middle East will provide safe haven for terrorists and extremists. It will embolden those who are trying to thwart the ambitions of reformers.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

My goal is to never stop growing.

The real secret of magic is that there is no magic.

I absolutely trust that every animal and person has their own very necessary journey.

Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.