Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains if we will only stop the waste and the idle useless regretting.

Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

Not all prisons have bars

I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

Success is not the destination; it's a way to travel.

Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.

We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.

Give a pup a home and a little love and he will give you his heart forever.

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.