One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

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.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

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

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!