The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Disruptive innovation is entrepreneurs changing their industry with unique creativity.

A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.

The buck stops here.

For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.

Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.

It's ok if you want to stop fighting.

We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

Though liberals have portrayed themselves throughout the past several decades as champions of the homeless, they are actually guilty of having created and perpetuated their condition.

I have been working on two problems for three years: one of them for 8 or 9 years, and one of them for 3, 4, 5 years.