Don’t be afraid, be terrified

Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

The hourglass runs low.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.

When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.

Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.

You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.

It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.

I’m fulfilling my calling when I seek to uphold righteousness in all spheres of life

Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne.

With luck on your side you can do without brains.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.

Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.

My grandmother always would say, "This, too, shall pass." It is always true.