What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp.

I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgemental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

Once you've left the concept of family, you've left the concept of kingdom

The genre of television that I love and watch is so vast. There's not one type of thing I love.

True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

Trump has a lot of authoritarian tendencies that need to be a serious concern.

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.