There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
[이 세상에 ‘흥미없는 일’이라는 것은 없다,
단지 ‘관심이 없는’ 사람들만 있을 뿐이다.]

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him,
but because he loves what is behind him.
[진정한 兵士(병사)는, 그의 앞에 있는 것을 ‘증오해서’ 싸우는 것이 아니라,
그의 뒤에 있는 것을 ‘사랑하기’ 때문에 싸우는 것이다.]

A dead thing can go with the stream,
but only a living thing can go against it.
[죽은 것은, 물의 흐름을 그냥 ‘따라서’ 흘러 가지만,
그 흐름을 ‘거슬러’ 올라갈 수 있는 것은 살아있는 것일 뿐이다.]

The traveler sees what he sees.
The tourist sees what he has come to see.
[나그네는 ‘자신의 눈’에 보이는 것을 보지만,
여행가는 ‘자기가 보러 온 것’을 본다.]

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors,
and also to love our enemies;
probably because generally they are the same people.
[성경은 우리들에게 ‘네 이웃을 사랑하라’고 가르치고 있고,
또한 ‘네 원수를 사랑하라’고 가르치고 있는데,
그 까닭은, 그들이 일반적으로 ‘같은 사람’이기 때문이다.]

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference
which is an elegant name for ignorance.

The simplification on anything is always sensational.

Art consists of limitation.
The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

The word “good” has many meanings.
For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother
at a range of five hundred yards,
I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies
because they become fashions.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons
to support her intuition.

There are two ways to get enough.
One is to continue to accumulate more and more.
The other is to desire less.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist.
Children already know that dragons exist.
Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

I am not absentminded.
It is the presence of mind
that makes me unaware of everything else.

Without education,
we are in a horrible and deadly danger
of taking educated people seriously.

There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’
that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought;
and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Just going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more
Than standing in your garage makes you a car.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting.
It has been found difficult; and left untried.

The man of the true religious tradition understands two thing:
Liberty and obedience.
The first means knowing what you really want.
The second means knowing what you really trust.