"I think about life, and I think about death. And neither of them particularly appeal to me."

"Where we go and what we do advertises what we are."

"Horses lend us the wings we lack."

"Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken."

"There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea."

"Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today."

"I have learned that the less I pay attention, the more often I am pleasantly suprised."

"Understanding wasn't always necessary as long as you believed."

"I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself."

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."

"Truth has beauty, power and necessity."

"I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles."