"The highest skill is the true judgment of values."

“The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.”

“Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?”

“In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.”

“I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.”

“Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.”

“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”

“Above all, we must understand that in leaving the toxic ways of the present we are healing ourselves, our places, and our planet. We rebel not as a last act of desperation but as a first act of creation.”

“Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.”

Source : "Stately as a Galleon". Book by Joyce Grenfell, 1978.