One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Opposition is the very spur of love.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

Glory is the child of peril.

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

Employment leaves you bare and empty

It is values that tell you what your pattern and values must be on daily bases.

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves

I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being.

Are you willing to increase the amount of time every day that you feel good inside?

It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly