The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

'T is strange that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

For the want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost; For the want of a horseshoe a horse was lost; For the want of a horse, the rider was lost; For the want of a rider, the message was lost; For the want of a message, the battle was lost; For the want of a battle, the war was lost; For the want of a war, the kingdom was lost; And all for the want of a horseshoe's nail.

The mind is like a parachute, it's no good unless it's open!

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

[At the Garden of Olives Monastery] "Why are you all so quiet all the time?" I say, still whispering at him in this hoarse voice. "We are teachers and workers," he says, "not talkers." "Workers, O.K.," I say, "but how can a teacher be quiet all the time and teach anybody anything?" "Christ was the best," he says, thinking of something. "He lived thirty-three years. Thirty years he kept quiet; three years he talked. Ten to one for keeping quiet.".

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round, And whom both Poles of heaven once saw Which North and South do bound, The stars above would make thee known, If men here silent were; The sun himself cannot forget His fellow traveller.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all.

"You are too free spoken," is your constant remark to me, Choerilus. He who speaks against you, Choerilus, is indeed a free speaker.