I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.

Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.

You cannot learn to curse like an American.

I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books.

The Jewish day begins in the calm of evening, when it won't shock the system with its arrival.

I also knew that the deep rumble rolling through us was only nerves, a sensitivity to imagined repercussion, as if a sound were built into revenge.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Doors of my heart are always open with love and kindness.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Fate operates when people give up

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object

Whether or not Afghanistan would be a peaceful nation-state had we not gone into Iraq I doubt. Afghanistan is going to be Afghanistan, no matter how hard we try to make it something else.

I have a soft spot for bad boys.

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.