The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Time cannot put anything in your hands until you let go off the time.

When kindness is here, hatred disappears. When hatred is here, kindness can never enter.

If we are to be truly free, that freedom will come through cooperation and tolerance with one another.

I learnt years ago not to use logic to understand African politics.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.