But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

There is something so pure and frank and noble about him that to doubt his sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

Letting off ammunition in every direction, Allah is my only protection. But wait a minute, Saddam Hussein prays the same.

If you dream you've got to dream that it's going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen.

Ministry is received, not achieved.

Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.