Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.