How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

I am unable to tolerate’

Every man needs a shadow to reveal his light, to always be that close, ever present, bonded forever in astral allegiance.

In ambiguous situations, it's a good bet that the crowd will generally stick together – and be wrong.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.

We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.

Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet is within us - Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife

Being kind to others is a way of being good to yourself.

EVE:so thats the bathroom where shane spends houres doing his hair shane:bite me

Ben Crenshaws, Ive got a good feeling speech.