Categories Starting with “T”

“Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.”

— Anton Chekhov

“Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.”

— Tom Stoppard

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”

— C. S. Lewis

“By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing with your life and just get on with it - which is what I suppose happened with me as much as to anyone else.”

— Douglas Coupland

“It isn't only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerated - and I say itchy polemicist promoting thought, not itchy ideologue promoting violence - but because provocation is indispensable to the workings of a sound, creative culture.”

— Howard Jacobson

“I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.”

— Dalai Lama

“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.”

— Steven Pinker