There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.

I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany.

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.

Have a vision. Sell your program. Your team is going to reflect you.

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

I've learned a long time ago to never say never about the band Kansas.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.