A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

As he watches the sun rise, what grieves him is that he failed her. He thinks of the terror she felt. They tell him it was quick, as if that will somehow confine the horror.

I am the keeper of my husband's history.

Nothing seems crazy when you're used to it.

There is every board minded man behind the success of woman. But when that man is in legal relation then a woman can triumph among men

My dream was to fall in love and be a mom. I never thought too much past those two things.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about