We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the last.

The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.

Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.

The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.

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My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me.

But that's another story.

O month when they who love must love and wed.

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a citizen of London carrying on an extensive business as a grocer in Wood Street, Cheapside, were assembled, according to custom, at prayer.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.