Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

Be selfless to find yourself.

It’s not going to be easy, but it’s kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done.

I shiver at the command. Why do I love the way he orders me around when I won’t stand the same from another man?

The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments.

I think one of the sexiest things a couple can share is laughing.

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!

For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven.