Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.

Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.

It is not always necessary to search for the cause behind everything, because every cause is unfounded. A cause only looks like a cause from a certain viewpoint.

The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists.

I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.