A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

[T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible.

Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake.

Don't ever permit anyone or anything to sail the ship of your life. No one can be a better captain of your ship than yourself. But you must not ignore to listen to your positive inner voices.

A human should realize himself and be responsible for himself if he wants to become the true person he is to be

For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.

Hitler really wasn't so bad. In the black way.

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

Like so many other positive acts, it turns out that hugging boosts our immune system. Plus it just plain feels good! So hug someone today, perhaps a person who seems particularly in need.

There's a million reasons why I should give you up. But the heart wants what it wants.

I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

I'm Bill Clinton and I think you deserve a change. That's why I've offered a plan to get the economy moving again, starting with a middle-class tax cut.