A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?

Myth is someone else's religion.

There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.

If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.

... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.

It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.

Man is immortal till his work is done.

There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.

You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes.

Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously, coming from the light of the Spirit.

I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.

Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.