Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

What begins will eventually end. The gap between is life.

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I'll help them. Then they merit some special consideration.

You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

 My 14-year-old grandniece is not allowed to watch 'American Horror Story' yet.

I think my new iPhone 5S is broken. I pressed the home button and I'm still at work