A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

True love does not hurt. It's our imitation of it that does.

The peace within is the power of the Holy Spirit.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

Every one of my fans is so special to me

Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry?

I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.

You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence of the Zen paintings, we're back in the world again.

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.

Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.