The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

America has a unique type of slavery that looks like freedom.

So walk in love as Christ loved us, and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.

I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it.

Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.'

I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.

I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.

Glad to see you’re still breathing.” – Caleb “Glad to be breathing.” – Nick