A dull speaker like a plain woman is credited with all the virtues for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The best mirror is an old friend.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

We live in a magic time, Kanefionn Stoneweaver. Who is to say that it is not you who create these marvels?

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do something, when all they need is one reason why they can.

I knew from the second I stepped onstage. I was like, yep, this is what I want to do.

It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.

Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.