A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.

All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own, ' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.

...that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough.

This is what we desire in intimate relationships but this deep connection is often so frightful that most do not take advantage of the opportunities presented for honesty.

She used to be all right, Una, when we were kids. I liked that she wasn't fussed about her antlers.

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

The law is about you looking at yourself. The new covenant is all about you seeing Jesus.

Whatever nature gives us, we explore & we build on.

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.

[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.

Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?