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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.