... only one man could have been responsible for their deaths: Richard III.

In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...

The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world.

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool

I am all for the short and merry life.

No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

The muse doesn't come without being called.

For heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, That man of man should ever stand in need.