There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

No one has direct access to your mind like you do. That's why introspection remains a valid technique even after the invention of brain scanners.

He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.

I miss my old life

The ultimate relationship is within thyself, knowing that all other relationships are a projection or a reflection of our ability or inability to love.

I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.

So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.

If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.

Life is short and the art long.

Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.