I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

Maybe all you need to pull you back form the ledge is to know someone would miss you if you fell.

Zach kissed her forehead. "I'm not going to let anything like that happen to you again. You're going to live out your days as the cosseted and cherished wife of a chief deputy U.S. Marshal.

The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.

Will turned around slowly, wiping blood from his face. "You're glaring at me," he said to Magnus. "You look like Church before he bites someone.

They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.

I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

Do you want to be rich or not? Let's get focused on that, buddy

Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.