"Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for."

"Silence is the loudest thing I've ever heard"

"You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic."

"It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise."

"The world is proof that God is a committee."

"Advice, like medicine, should be given in small does; that a little is good doesn't mean more will be better."

"Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again too. Who decides?"

"Well may we say God save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governor-General."

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."

"Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."

"Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh."

"He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more."