The world might be going up in flames, but we have to carry on as normal

Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.

Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods.

We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher… and falling.

Though I’m tempted by the call of the sea, I resist. It can’t claim me.In a way I’m stronger than the waves and I feel good about that.

Embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it.

Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called ‘pigheadedness’.

Joy is a sure sign of the presence of God in your life.

Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.

Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other.

It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

The Maigret stories are all very different in terms of the content and the way that the stories are told. They're not what I would call formulaic.

Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.

If God is your problem, only God is your solution.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.