Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.

The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.

Bible: Various portions of it, when properly interpreted, contain a code of behaviour which many men consider best suited to the ultimate happiness of mankind.

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man’s mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City.

Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.

Our ability to forgive is a direct measure of our hope

God loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us that way.

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

In the eight years before I became governor, there was zero net private sector job growth in New Jersey. Zero. For eight years.

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

But we were talking about me and my problems." Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely. "I don't think we're going to solve those in the space of one carriage ride.

I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realized I was in it.

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to do with music. I made a disparaging comment about McDonald's on Twitter once and people flipped out on me.