Isaac D'Israeli

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.