To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep

The art of statemanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

A diplomat who says “yes” means “maybe", a diplomat who says “maybe" means “no”, and a diplomat who says “no” is no diplomat.

Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.

We are not equal, we are two halves that make each other whole.

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?

One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.

If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.