Falconer's grasp of period and places is almost flawless ... He's my kind of writer.

It was the sort of moment that a smoker would fill in with a cigarette and an ex-smoker filled in with the memory of a cigarette.

Education should enable a student to think rationally, critically, and ultimately to understand, accept, and adapt with new and old ideas.

The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.

Pressure is part of what we do. It's always present.

Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.

It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.