Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.