“To teach is to learn twice.”

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Children need models rather than critics.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Space is the stature of God.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

Ive learned never to try and force words to come.

Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.