The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

Our best chance for happiness is education.

There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

The things we place greatest value upon are prioritised by their context in our lives.

The sun in my life, it is gone, it is gone

It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.

I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.

The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.

The doctor is not a miracle worker who can magically save us but, rather, an expert adviser who can assist us in our own recovery.

Boris Johnson is a man of great attributes and great qualities.

Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.