Is not this house (the Tower of London) as nigh heaven as my own?
Own Quotes
It’s a bad word, ‘belong.’ Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn’t be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can’t even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what […]
A god who created man “after his own image”, and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited to him.
They see only their own shadows or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.
Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don’t really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?
It’s possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
I begin my Property classes with the question: “do you own yourself?” Most of my students eagerly nod their heads in the affirmative, until I warn them that, by the time we finish examining this question at the end of the year, they will find their answer most troubling, whatever it may be today. “If […]
If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
