One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

I wish you a great grace to fulfill your dreams in the New Year.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

He's pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

This is the Homosexuality Is An Abomination Club, right?

I'm not John Lennon. I'm John Lennox. Now, 'imagine a world without' Stalin. The New Atheists are often silent about [the wrong done by atheists].

I know this is maybe naive, but one day I hope there will be peace in the world. Maybe one day the flowers will come back.

Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

I'm a big advocate of drones.