Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

Learn how to learn...then start learning

The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and toward more unbalanced and detached psychologies.

Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

I thought The Visitation was good fun. We did some of that filming at Ealing on the big set.

It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment.