It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.

I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting. They are in pain.

My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

I can't sleep,I can't but when all else fails I just breath.

I really fancy Eddie Redmayne. I wouldn't mind a few steamy scenes with him.