It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.

Prayer is sustenance of life.

A world of Peace and liberty is my dream

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.

A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

Wisdom considers not only the cost of a choice, but also its value.

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.