You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.

There is a graceless human tendency to wish upon others the ills visited upon oneself. Instead of pointing successors towards short cuts, you relish seeing them clambering through identical hoops.

... if you keep an open mind, life will show you a way out of your problems.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!

I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.

The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club.