The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

You may have the dark and cold street life, ruled by the lessor light of the moon. During this time I restore my temple, and later awake to greet the awesome radiance of the sun-star.

Time was the greatest murderer in history.

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

I think that we do have a great country, but there's a lot of things that we're not so great at. Unfortunately, education is one of them.

If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I was going to squirt tears. How unprofessional.

If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.

History is the third parent.

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.