Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

Ah well, 'tis the way of the world -- births and deaths, births and deaths.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.

To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

When a woman weeps, it is a man's shame.

Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams; and it was shining only for itself.

When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!

the flames are silent, Peace is violent, Tears are frozen’cause massacre was chosen.~~ 26/11– Mumbai terror attack memories

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.

All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture.

Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.

The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.

There are also many things my wife can't stand about me, and there are certain capacities that she has that are different than mine. The trick is to find compatibilities.

Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes.