The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

No two persons ever read the same book.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

Long are the lives of elves' he said.Short are the tempers of dwarfs, 'Gotrek muttered, just loud enough to be heard.

The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'

The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.

One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

I'm only interested in winning ball games and I can't be worrying about whether the sun's out or the moon's out.

There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything is better than separation.

I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.

I think that special relationship between the UK and the US has been an important part of security across the world particularly to the West.