The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. . .I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Women are the real architects of society.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.