Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.

It's one thing to stick to your guns. It's quite another to hold those guns to the heads of your citizens.

When Millennials face turmoil, they don’t just need answers from God, they need God.

If we are leading but not closely following Christ, we are misleading.

I have a dream! Because I have lived a nightmare.

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.