Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.

Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart.

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.

The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.

The greatest vision of sin that a person canever receive is to look at the cross.

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings.

I love to teach - that's my role.

I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV.

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.