Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

All forms of tampering with human beings getting at them shaping them against their will to your own pattern all thought control and conditioning is therefore a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

You have to understand that in this league, we are all one play removed from being the starter or from being the backup, in any game.

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

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Change your thoughts and you change your world.

My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.

I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call 'do-gooder' things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.

My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.

I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.

English people are always surprised I'm English.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

The middle years of childhood arrive just as your own are getting uncomfortably close.

The problem isn't with your body, the problem is what you think of it.

I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'

I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.