The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful, people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground.

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

It took a little time to get where I wanted. It took a little time to get free. It took a little time to be honest. It took a little time to be me.

The Libertarian Party is a shameful party

The revenge of a guilty woman is implacable.

When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.

Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it.

The rise of the ecologist almost exactly parallels the decline of the naturalist.

Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without.