There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

Personality is lower than partiality.

Above all nations is humanity.

We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink (…) That was a very different thing from wanting to die.

If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better.

I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

I don’t believe in failure; I believe there are setbacks that are put into our path to teach us something and move us in a different direction.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

When you first start working for me, directly for me, I micromanage until I trust you.

I've bought DBSK's CD and every time I listen to their songs I feel very good.