The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they dont need him.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame give me the man who living makes a name.

Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.