The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

If you’re not going to feel how are you going to know what to think? Isn’t it in the nature of feeling to evolve thought?

Dennis Thatcher husband of Margaret Thatcher when asked who wore the pants in his house said "I do and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men domestic and foreign.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.

You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt.

Records should come from feelings. You shouldn't try to do nothing; it should just come out how you feel.

Once your mind becomes absolutely still, your intelligence transcends human limitations.

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

In fact I've been rather blessed with roles in my career that really alter my actual look. I've never looked the same in any film I've done.