If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.

Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage.

She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them.

The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.

Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?

Love is the same as being lost,' says Jacques to the dark. 'Except you don't care that you're lost.

A train will bring you back to the place you came from, but it will not return you home.

I was to be buried inside my own creation, the better to keep its secrets. I will not tell you more, for your sake. But if you ask, I will answer.

A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.

Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.

To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

Keep an eye on the weather, which is changing faster than predicted, and on the new diseases escaping or being made, even as we speak. It's a race between new tech and biosphere bankruptcy, I'd say.

The world behaves differently when I take action to go after what I want.

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.

For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.