Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight—a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold.

If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.

Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.

[Doogal] wasn't even animated. It was still and the audience had to move.

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

Nature is God's Old Testament.

The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.