Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Switch on your stamina

Struggle forms character. No struggle, no character.

Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.

To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that a school may succeed in mastering the thought of the individual.

Understanding is the key to true knowledge

We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.

In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.

for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)