People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

All progress is experimental.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

The flames of our memories keep us alive!

All I can think is that it must be a kind of rebellion, To arm your fears like soldiers and slay them.

There are always two voices sounding in our ears-the voice of fear and the voice of confidence. One is the clamor of the senses the other is the whispering of the higher self.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.

My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

Be an instrument, a multiplier of God's blessings.