Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

There is no condition so miserable that thinking can't make it worse.

To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible.

When choosing friends, I seek quality, not quantity.

I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

We had to forgive to survive the labyrinth

Not eating meat really keeps me trim....meat, and what's usually served with it, is a big calorie packer.