On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world.

Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister.

Why don't we learn about the mental health which affects every minute of our lives? ... Where is the school for learning [about] positive mental health?

‘Eighth one this week, ’ he said.

Unanswered? I would've answered any question, Hannah. But you never asked.

I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.

It’s just simply the fact that the NSA does not think anybody should be able to communicate anywhere on the Earth without them being able to invade it.

We're going to do a challenge. I'm going to try and download every movie ever made and you are going to try to sign up for Obamacare - and we'll see which happens first.

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the most powerful tools to do so