Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there’s a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.