“We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.”

A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one’s resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

When you listen to someone sing from inside their head, their same mix, and you listen to their voice as loud as they like it

It makes you feel really comfortable when someone is like, I’m not going to touch what you’re doing.

Humans have a tendency to want to reciprocate, so the more you show you’re looking out for someone

If you really like someone, it doesn’t matter what their mouth feels or tastes like.

Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.

I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat

If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.