Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

If someone truly loves you, they won't try to change you or take away your freedom to choose.

The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

A mind is totally big enough to get lost inside - to go crazy if you're left with too much time and too much room to let your biggest fears run free.

Woe to him who becomes useless to human progress!

Even if language is a living evolving organism we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive it can get sick.

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

She's awfully fond of Wendy,' he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy. The reason was so simple: 'I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady.

Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.