Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.