A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.

The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.

A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

Silence is a place of great power and healing.

It looks tough for Palace when you see some of the results they've got coming up.

I can't destroy the whole army, and anyway [Tikka Khan] bad reputation for the events in Dacca is exaggerated.