We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.

As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

It is high time that we had a subject called Childrening, as we have one called Parenting!

But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.

I don't ever want to let people down, so a lot of my energy goes to making people laugh and letting them know how much I care for them.

In my heart of hearts, I thought, if we get a 1-0 win and the team doesn't perform well, that would feel good.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

Polls are like perfume-nice to smell, dangerous to swallow.