Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.

The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.

Nature is not anthropomorphic.

I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.

Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.