Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

A lie never lives to be old.