Wisdom clears the mind of delusions thus making it more focused to achieve excellence.

If performance of duty is part of excellence, then it should give satisfaction and happiness.

Manga endings might always be the same. However when it comes to real life, neither you nor I are readers. We are the writers. We can change the ending.

True beauty is a rayThat springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as lifesprings from the kernel of a stone andgives colour and scent to a flower.

To teach you need books, to educate you need heart.

All men are born truthful and die liars.

Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.

I don't think I'd ever want to direct. I don't think I have as much discipline to direct as I would like to have, and I don't want my hair color to not go grey during that process.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

If you think you're always in control, then you're not going fast enough.

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.