Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

If the gods exist, then it does not matter whether or not this is something that one knows.

Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom. Her face was puffy and pale and fuzzed-over. She just came in and said: "Ashmol, Pobby and Dingan are maybe-dead." That's how she said it.

All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.

All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.

You must have been a beautiful baby, 'Cos baby just look at you now.

I get to wake up and do what I love every day and I don't take that for granted. I feel grateful for it every day.

We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him.