Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Reyna sent me to get Percy, " Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?""Yeah, " Percy said. "He slaughtered my panda.

In the current state of society, it seems to me that man is corrupted more by reason than by passion.

Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

We should turn cyber warfare into one of our greatest weapons against the terrorists and they have to know it's coming because right now they know nothing about us.

I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset.

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.