Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Human moments are brief, value them when they happen.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

Change before you have to.

If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.

There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

It was a typical day of suckage and blowage.’ (Chris)