Arnold J. Toynbee

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.