Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

The only thing that can destroy ur destiny is God and Yourselves!

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.

To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.