The person you are matters more than the place to which you go; for that reason we should not make the mind a bondsman to any one place.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go; for that reason we should not make the mind a bondsman to any one place.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.

My wishes are but few All easy to fulfil; I make the limits of my power The bounds unto my will. I fear no care for gold; Well-doing is my wealth; My mind to me an empire is, While grace affordeth health.

I think the whole point of being with someone is so you can talk to them and let go of everything, and even when you’re at your worst, they still like you, they still want to speak to you and care about you.

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.

The failure to read good [classic] books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

This should be the new “is your Batman remotely like Batman” test. Can your version of Batman be caring enough to hold and care for a small child, yet still menace four criminals into surrendering, and even then still not be scary enough that a civilian can just go up to him and say “hey you holding that baby wrong, you clearly do not know what you’re doing. Let me help.” And he accepts her help, doesn’t try pretend he doesn’t need help because it’d hurt his image.