Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.

The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you.

Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

We all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.

As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.

Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up.