"I am a sportsman all over, and to the back-bone – 'Unting is all that's worth living for – all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting – it is like the hair we breathe – if we have it not we die – it's the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger."

"The Soldier is a farmer. He knows how to shape the earth. He is a carpenter; he erects ramparts and palisad…"

"For the truly creative mind in any field is no more than this — a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly…"

"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we…"

"Bodhicitta is the medicine which revives and gives life to every sentient being who even hears of it. When …"

"Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a ne…"

"We do, then, with all earnestness, though without reproaching our brethren, protest against the irrational …"