Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It’s pouring out, it keeps diminishing.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

The term SAT is a set of initials, or autonym, standing for Scholastic Attitude Treaty Organization.

I moved on from the whole 'Playboy' thing five years ago and really never looked back. I'm not one of those girls who goes back to all the parties and things.

Light, the visible reminder of Invisible Light.

I tweet because it allows me to say anything I want and sometimes people respond.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.