Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Success and discipline are synonymous in life - you can't have one without the other!

All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

The obstacle in spritual growth is not ignorance of self, it is the illusion of self.

Sooner or later everyone behaves badly. Some of us are just better at it than others.

Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.

The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.

We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.