As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king's beer, and be numbered amongst the king's wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased to give her to me.

The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

A sharp spear needs no polish.

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important

In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.

We just have to believe that God is bigger than the junk happening to us.

Give yourself a deadline. Amazingly, many people work better under pressure. They are quickly moved to action when they know that they have a clock to beat!

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

I must have my share in the conversation.

Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

Wouldn't you like to weigh what it says on your driver's license?