"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."

"Unusual degree. This family became divided eight generations"

"I think an Agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind. The whole subject [of God] is beyond the scope of man's intellect."

"I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference."

"I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance."

"Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings"

"He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty"

"Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea."

"His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises."

"Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science."

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

"In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass."

"If you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete."

"She is no longer the beautiful woman she was. she sends photos of herself sitting upon a rock by the ocean alone and damned. I could have had her once. I wonder if she thinks I could have saved her?"

"The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way."

"What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?"

"I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city."

"...there has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person has to be dedicated to the task. There has to be some other motivation."

"I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find out for themselves, the more vigor the organization is going to have."

"I think at the time I wasn't very happy about it [marriage], but actually it made me a stronger person, you find out things about yourself that maybe you hadn't realized. I think you can get quite consumed by a relationship when you are younger and I really valued that time for me as well, although I didn't think it at the time."

"I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight."

"Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well."

"I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew."

"Every time Wimbledon is on, I am thinking, 'Yes, I could do the same and get out the racket.' Sadly, not the same results."