Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

My life's work is to create tools to empower and elevate life on the planet. To create global change, one heart at a time.

Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously

What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever.