We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right

I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

Life is wonderful so love deeply. Life is short so live it intensely.

One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction.

Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.

Knowing is the same thing as the inner voice.

I like action movies! Action movies are awesome.

Stronger people are harder to kill

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately

Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.