We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Democracy is only an experiment in government and it as the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.

I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' in the course of, like, a month.

When we think of scientists, we hear a man's voice.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

If you carry your childhood with you you never become older.

We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!

There is no place for little minds in a great work

'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.

Communion is strength solitude is weakness. Alone the fine old beech yields to the blast and lies prone on the meadow. In the forest supporting each other the trees laugh at the hurricane. The sheep of Jesus flock together. The social element is the genius of Christianity.

I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.

I'm like a child inside and I really get excited, so sometimes when I'm trying to go to bed, I'm so excited about the next day that I can't go to sleep.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.