I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.

The problem with people is that they try to do everything but don't do one thing well. Focus more energy on the activity you excel in. Capitalize on your strengths.

Who is this man?''Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself Doctor No - Doctor Julius No.''No? Spelt like Yes?''That's right.

Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what's important. It is a choice.

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.