War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.

Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.

Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we cannot seriously take ourselves to be the only minds in it all.

The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.

When a husband and wife are concerned only about their own individual desires, the stage is set for conflict.

There is nothing to lose in this life. The only loss is death.

We can only climb the mountains because there’s a valley that makes the mountain a mountain.

There is a story, there is a scene which you always miss and you never pay attention at it... (The Ring 1)

In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally with his ball and claim the hole - but it isn't usually done.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

I had been introduced to psychotherapy, in which the doctors let you talk, talk, talk, until you find the source of your problem or find another doctor.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.