Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

To a real child anything will serve as a toy.

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.

Great grace, great life.

Time to dance with the devil....

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics

I am dying Egypt dying.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

Artemis Fowl will never be secondary." "I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?" said Holly.

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.