How is it I have the strength to carry my own weaknesses?

The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?

It is in the company of others that one can be really lonely, for then one's personality is forced openly to try to express what it's separate individuality is.

The basic Irrational Act which is renewed every moment of life, is not to commit suicide.

It is no ipso facto escape from dogma to assert (knowingly or not) non-dogmatism dogmatically.It is no ipso facto escape from credulity to believe in one's own scepticism.

Ignorance screens the truth. It is on that screen that people paint pictures and write underneath their labels "god" and "not-god" and "theism.' and "atheism" .

It is our eyes that blind us and our ears that deafen us.

A thought for this Damocletian Age: the trouble with justice is it just isn't it?

Where would I be (and what would happen to me), if I could see all round me and above and below at once ?

Then Brezhnev grabbed the wheel of power and captained the country with the exploratory heart of a municipal bus driver.

I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out.

Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.

We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human

I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.

Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.

Conquer fear..make a decision.

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.