There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.

America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

It’s very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that’s something that resonates for me.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

While I have no problem with the church adapting to the culture, we must ensure that we remain painstakingly true to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that we remain obedient servants to His truths.

I had six good years and one bad one, and everyone was wondering whether I'd have a good one again.

... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.

I lived in the cultural equivalent of Tatooine when I was a little boy. I didn't live in London, I didn't live right in the middle of where everything was happening, I lived on the very edge of it.

Edward thought he was going to ruin Bella's life and he made her happy. And that really was everything for him.