What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

Wise Child: Why don't you beat me then?Juniper: I can't be bothered.

It is an odd thing that you can easily get millions of pounds for weapons to destroy life, but it is exceedingly difficult to get thousands for weapons to preserve it.

You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again.

No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.

In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.

My father gave me some advice when I was very young - whatever someone tells you in the future, don't forget Pele is the best.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.