Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

Life is the power to perceive. Without perception there is no life, and what is most endemic to perception is power.

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.

He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.

How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.