The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The best mirror is an old friend.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

You do not get peace in this world until you are broken into pieces.

I think the most important part of this now is, let's say the American people, but the polls show that the majority now don't want a war, anywhere, not only against Syria.

It is really hard to talk about reincarnation because you have always been and you will always be. You just experience different things in different ways.

I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either.

Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most.

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.