Isn’t materialism the cause of much that is evil in the land of mortal souls?

...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man’s world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?

...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,

…blissfulness is the summit of contentment…

Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue.

...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people’s way of life...

Life is so sweet even though it is full of lies and half truths...

Only love can touch the heart.

Let your resistance, judgements, angers and fears inform you.

In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.