I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

The heart pointed to the brain and said with great disdain, “Those who live their lives in here live the lives most full of fear.

Think and keep quiet among those you don't trust.

[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.

It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.

But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just sh$*.

You gotta think about your category, your replacement cycle, usage, how these things come together and the dynamics are different.

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

We just couldn't hit shots. We had good looks but they weren't falling and we kept turning the ball over.

The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like them, you don't have to behave like anyone.

Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.