There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.

One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior

Grammar is like a strive for perfection. It's useless really.

Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

Whoever said it's tough at the top is talking absolute sh*t.

I'd rather feel empathy for a character that's fictional, so it doesn't quite tie into personal experience as much.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks.

Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.