There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.

There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.

There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.

The same as a cigarette?" asked Rita excitedly, as Mrs. Sin bent over her."The same, but very, very gentle.

The knowledge, which makes you ‘emotional’, is worldly awareness. True awareness does not make you ‘emotional’.

Och, my potion is boiling. I need to say good night and keep an eye on the pot. Ye canna overboil newt's eyeballs.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.

Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.

I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca)

I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals.

The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.