Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

It is courage the world needs, not infallibility...courage is always the surest wisdom.

The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on Earth.

There is nothing more beautiful than the light of a Candle and the Aroma of it's Heart

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then go do it again.

We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; personally, I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.' It always means listen closely.

The use of thermodynamics in biology has a long history rich in confusion.

Nuclear weapons are to be worried about only when they're in the hands of Ronald Reagan - not so much when they're in the hands of a Third World anti-imperialist like Saddam Hussein. Can't you see?

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

George Martin is an incredible writer.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.