Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

What the new mate, sports car, or unexpected check could never do, Christ says, "I Can." You'll love how he achieves it. He reconnects your soul with God.

What you have suffered after you have healed will make perfect sense.

Without a sense of humor, you don't have much sense at all.

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?

I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.

I also think that filmmakers understand, we don't have to make twenty movies a year, we make four to six.

A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.