Those yellow eyes had seen the thing Ruby hid, even from herself. And when two people see a thing, for better or worse, it becomes real.

Ruby knew then that a lie could only control a person if they believed it.

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.

I don't watch the beginnings of many series, I don't know why, maybe because I'm normally working.

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.

The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.

"Heaven" refers to the realm that is the interior part of a human being, and that the "divine self" is none other than the selfless light existing in our innermost depths.

Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept