War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.

If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.

And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.

You have the power within you to choose a life of love and beauty or choose a life of misery and destruction. What you chose, that you will attract and that you will manifest.

A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling.

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

Without love we could not survive. Human beings are social creatures, and a concern for each other is the very basis of our life together.

The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.

Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.

A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.

IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.