Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.

Looking back, I realise it wasn't only gym I dreaded at school. Every class was a torment. It wasn't knowledge I objected to but instruction. Why couldn't they just tell us what books to read and leave us to get on and read them?

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.