Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

People value people who value people.

It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church.

One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

If I could have banned them all...I would have!

You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.

We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.

Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.