The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.

God knows the angel's wings must have been over us in view of the terrible mortality in all other camps up an down this line which seemed to be being built in bones.

The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

Every country needs its heroes, and we must follow them.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

A circle's unity and never ending smoothness is how we can aim to feel inside. Smooth, gentle, accepted, no rough edges, only love for all parts of our selves.

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

What we have is given by God and to teach it to others is to return it to him.

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.

My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."

The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.

I eat Swiss cheese from the inside out.

We have good personal relationship with President Obama, our relations are quite frank and business-like. And this is quite enough to do our job.