most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

But do you want this? It's not much of a life. Don't you see? It's the first life I've had in four hundred years. With you--in the only way that matters--I'm alive again.

It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere.

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

This will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome except victory.

I wasn't necessarily looking to do comedy on TV, but I don't think it's an accident that I ended up on 'Community.'

I had a twin, and he didn't make it.

The worlds smallest package is a person wrapped up in themselves.

Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.