when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.

Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

You can't conceive the perverse ingenuity he could put into hiding his affections.

She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked.

The realisation that limitations are imaginary will make you strong and overpowering.

Hate was the blazing beauty that consumed the world in its flames. Love could never consume anything but the heart of a fool.

There are no secrets on the Internet

Curation comes up when search stops working.

Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will that directs them indomitable.

Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?

Many times the rewards of fasting come after the fast, though from time to time answers can come during the fast.

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

Gun producer and the killer is the same thing! Be ethical, stop producing guns! Be human, for God's sake, for there shall never be peace of mind for the wicked!

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.