No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

[T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible.

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

I fell in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.

Beauty scatters the seeds of hope in us.

Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.

F**king Jews...the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.

We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is 'knowing what your uterus looks like'.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.