You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

Eventually we all must return home, Praetor. We must embrace our past, no matter how bitter and dark." — Orion

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.

I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.

I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit.

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?

Things have a way of falling into place.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

When a man's ways please God, the stones of the street shall be at peace with him.