“Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.”

“Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.”

“Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.”

“Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.”

“The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.”

“A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.”

“Just looking at him made Andrew feel tense and irritated. It was wonder perfect strangers didn't go up to the guy and punch him in the face.”

“If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can act...”

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life ...”

“Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its na...”

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”

“The central feature of pride is enmityenmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity means hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition. It is the power by which Satan wishes to...”

“We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high as or higher than we are.”

“When we feel powerless in a hostile world we can at least practice quelling the enmity in our minds.”