Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time.

I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.

Stay in your car in your lane on your road in your world. Stay in your own lane. Don't be minding other people's spiritual business. Stay in your car. In your lane. On your road. In your world.

Come what may and love it.

That wasn't good, that wasn't sportsmanship. I was amazed he took that shot.

Good works are often spoiled by moving too quickly. . . . The good which God desires is accomplished almost by itself, without our even thinking of it.