I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

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

We cannot inherit Christianity . . . God has no grandchildren.

Isn't it always the things that you can't see that hurt you?

The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

too often, the only escape is sleep

I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

What is China but a people and their stories?

Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

I hope what people learned from watching me is that just because you do things a little differently doesn't mean you can't do them just as well.

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.