Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

What can you give God but bhakti bhava? He owns it all anyway.

Better not perceive yourselves too high, O humans.We only value mankind as our experimentation object.

I am partly to blame for the decking boom, and I am sorry, I know it?s everywhere these days.

The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.

We're living in a time where we want to be entertained but I think part of what people are looking for, that they don't even know they're looking for is to be uplifted in many ways.

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

She reached into her coat pocket and felt two things she hadn't expected.... One was a wad of cash... she brought out the money. Leo whistled. "Allowance? Piper, your mom rocks!