History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.

People are islands, ' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts.

A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.

Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

Success is not a doorway it's a staircase.

It is every Muslim's duty to fight those of a different belief until only Allah is worshipped around the world. Everybody has the opportunity to accept Allah and to change to the right path.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

We believe that we decide. We do make decisions. But the deeper decisions come from another part of our being that we're not particularly aware of yet.

Tutoring a four year old to get into an exclusive preschool made as much sense as hiring a swim coach for a guppy.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

I loved the bike because it gave me some measure of independence that I did not have.

Every action has a reaction. We've got one planet and one chance.