Youth is wasted on the young.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's producer, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, known for his tight-fisted control of the James Bond movie franchise, desperately wanted to re-team Julie Andrews and me after the success we'd enjoyed with 'Mary Poppins.'

There are, no doubt, as many conceptualizations of the good life as there are lives that aspire to it, but surely one of the most important pathways to its achievement begins with the desire to seek what is good - for the self, for those we love, for 'our neighbor,' for our earth.