A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

In my Father's house are many mansion: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

A mistake is a Buddhist gift. Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.

No, misery makes sport to mock itself.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.

Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

The Hare and the Tortoise A hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race. The Hare, believing her assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal, and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal. On the day appointed for the race the two started together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course. The Hare, lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue. Slow but steady wins the race.

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

When man to man shall be friend and brother.

The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

To make the plough go before the horse.

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

Language is memory and metaphor.