The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up—flaked up, with rose-water snow.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.

Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face-at least to my taste-his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul.

[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.

... an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day."

The wisest thing you'll ever do in this life is to draw close to God and to seek Him with all your heart.

If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over again.

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.