Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.

I was in '78 recently, " he announced. "I brought you this."He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize the title."Didn't they split in '70?""Not always. How are things?

For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.

Fervent seeking after God with the whole heart, without which no one can know Him, has always been the mark of His true followers.

You can't have the family farm without the family.

If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

If you ever have to ask someone else's opinion on a trade, you shouldn't be in it.

A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.