The secret of marriage is thinking that your partner is better than yourself.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

The warrior (Zsadist) rolled his black eyes. "Come on, man. What does it matter to me? You, Tohr. Britney Spears.

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.