A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never "heard of."

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peaceful purposes.

The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course.

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

The Repairer is a Restorer.

Ah take the Cash and let the Credit go Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

I understand that when Gary Oldman was in that suit [Batman], sweat would just drip off of him where they had to have holes in the gloves or something.

The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.

But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

I just want to touch your soul, let me pour into you. Fill you with my joy, and make you feel brand new.