It is what you are inside that matters. You yourself are your only real capital.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try and perhaps failing.

You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside but you cannot need for it to come from outside.

Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

Your body's just a vehicle, transporting the soul. It's what's inside of people, is beauty to behold.

I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.

Be what thou wouldst seeme to be.

Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.

I hope we get a decision shortly - I will be dead soon. (on wanting to be Man City manager)