There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.

For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.

My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.

I still do believe that form and content are very much related. I think throwing away some of the rule books on that is a good thing.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.