Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

... life is short and the world is wide

Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

Christ asked for everything he got.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

God always has and always will look for men and women who say to Him, 'I trust you so much, I'm all in. I want your way not mine. I am willing to live by faith!'

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.

It's true. I......I wanted to be born in the year of the cat......!

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.