Ben Aaronovitch Quote

Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...

Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is heali...

It's the sound of the sea that makes you believe in mermaids.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.