The probability that the bowman's arrow hits the deer does not lie in the arrow or the deer. It lies in the bowman's mind.

Learning means change.

Death is an engineering problem.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool

It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

At last God caught his eye.

Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.

If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.]

To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.

The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.