Isaac D'Israeli

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

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

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

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

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!'

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.