When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

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.

Love shall be our token

Why would any writer in her right mind ever consider making a movie instead? That's like going from being a monk or a nun to serving as a camp counselor for hundreds of problem children.

Never be intimidated by what seems ominous, for BiG is only an accumulation of many smalls.

Garfield's assassination attempt made "the whole nation care".

Beauty is more than skin deep.

I remember 9/11; we had 'Comics Come Home' about a month after those events. That night, even the comedians were concerned. Would the audience be ready to laugh? It was a release for everyone.

If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.

The question you're not supposed to ask is the important one.

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.