Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

A brave mind is always impregnable.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Without discretion people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection and choked with too much nourishment.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.

I got fed up of listening to bollocks

At home, I don't like to be just sitting around; I like to go out and do things. It's when I'm the happiest.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

I'm a Chelsea season-ticket holder, and I've supported them for 37 years, so any judgment of Manchester United by me is seen as biased.

We're extremely excited about the assets that Yahoo has in the areas of Sports and Finance and Email and News. You match those up with AOL, and we've just made an exponential leap in capabilities here.

If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

I'm completely happy and fulfilled in my personal life.

I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.

The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

Affirmation statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now.

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.

Being pregnant is a pretty tough gig. You're trying to grow a whole other person, you're tired, your feet hurt, and you're a little scared about the big changes you know are coming.

The most remarkable change in the moral history of mankind has been the rise - and occasionally the application - of the view that all people, and not just one's own kind, are entitled to fair treatment.

Here's a glorious thought: You don't have to settle. Ever. In life, in love, in your career ANYWHERE!

The Grammy is the highest honor in music that we can receive, outside of having fans come and watch you every night and clap.

We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.