A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality.

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

It was a mistake of mine to tell the lads that this lot don't score too many goals - and statistically they don't - but then they go and score seven.

I wasn't somebody who raised his finger and then talked in a hushed voice. I always shouted.

When opportunity presents itself grab it. Hold on tight and don’t let go.

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

You have to have students wanting to take the courses, otherwise you're not going, they're not going to be very effective.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.

The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies.