And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life.

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.

One has no room for vengeance, ' says Shara, 'when the eyes of the world are watching. We must be judicious, and bloodless.

I don't have the time or the energy to hate, " says Shara. "I only wish to understand. People are what they are.

Envy the fire, for it is either going or not. Fires do not feel happy, sad, angry. They burn, or they do not burn.

Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying.

I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.

When I come back to you, if I come back to you, will I know you? Will you be the city of my memory? Or will you be a stranger?

I will not see you, she tells the city, but I will remember you.

Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.

Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority.

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

Be passionate about something and lean to that strength.

From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. If you can create technology, you can change the world.

Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.