...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.

The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations, ' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.

You Anglo-Saxons have largely broken away from such dependence on family. Each generation feels perfectly free to act alone and you are not afraid.

I miss being a student, " said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours among the books.

Memories were like tomb paintings, thought the Major, the colors still vivid no matter how many layers of mud and sand time deposited. Scrape at them and they come up all red and blazing.

Look, the truth belongs to the guy who's best at sticking to his story, ' said Ferguson.

You get something, if you do something

And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

Dearest darling, how I love you. Words cannot tell how much I love you. So forget it.

That's just a much more enjoyable and motivating experience for me, when I can see people who are just as obsessed with the idea as I am.

Any time you get a role that's a young person, that resembles what it's like to be a teenager, I always kind of jump at it.

We must be amusing at all times and sneer at those who express their real feelings; it's dangerous for a tribe to allow its members to show their feelings.

I am suspicious of both facility and speed.

Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat today’s actions 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?

You try to do a technical feature: in front of me I had a strong rider who brakes hard and it's difficult to pass.