ISIS was not particular about how their soldiers made it to Jannah, so long as they inflicted maximum damage..

In the intelligence community, a rumor was almost as good as a confirmation.

The CIA’s offices in London were no secret to the MI6. In fact, the two agencies were practically kissing cousins.

Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.

To the heads of the new Islamic State, their God was money and power on earth.

There is no room for emotion in business.

Man is the only predator who hunts his own.

Other people imagined demons and monsters under the bed. Robert had actually seen them.

There's something quite special about a granny's house. Even if ten or twenty or thirty years go by, you never forget how it smells.

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

I don't sit around and read papers about myself. If I see myself on TV, if I don't like it, I change the channel.

What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

A lot of times people come up to me saying 'oh my god you can see,' and they think they're the first person to think of that joke, but they're probably the 10,000th one to say that joke.

Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.

Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.