Love truly makes the world turn, as it has been said. What people forget is that the turning of the world brings darkness as well as the light.

Fear sticks like a barb in the mind. Someone cold enough to take advantage of it can attach strings to those barbs and make puppets of men and women.

Curiosity is the hunger of the mind.

Faith is courage.

People never know what they are capable of until all other options run out.

All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.

Every sacred moment is made that way by sacrifice.

No healthy mind could bring itself to torture another human being.

Battles waged in daylight are fought by soldiers. Battles waged at night are fought by savages.

It is impossible to know the whole depth of someone’s character from a single moment, but seeing how they respond to the unexpected is a great start.

It is impossible for the sane to truly understand madness.

What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn't kept pace.

I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

To love means you also trust.

The fundamental goal of Buddhism is the realization of the peace and happiness of humankind.

I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.

Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.

Of the five senses, smell is the one with the best memory.

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.