As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

I'm not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now.

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

Terrorism kills far fewer people than cigarettes, or alcohol, or car accidents. But we don't see ourselves restructuring society and lives in order to make those threats go away.

About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.

Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.

You have to give credit where credit is due.

Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.

The Democrats of today, they don't care about the past, other than look at aspects of it they hate.

I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully.