Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Dare to risk public criticism.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

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

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

I am not now That which I have been.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?