The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is. . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them. . .
In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
When we were touring with The Mighty Boosh, we went on a ghost tour of York. It was all about ghosts, and the tour guide was hilarious.
The balanced life is a goal, but for us it is mostly a myth.