Ignorance is the parent of fear.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.

Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face-at least to my taste-his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul.

[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.

... an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

... the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril,

If you're worried about safety, you might like to follow my example and put on that seat belt.""The what?"Xavier shook his head in disbelief."You worry me, " he muttered.

There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world, " he says softly.

Your absence in my life is testing me every second. It has gifted me incompleteness, pain, and hope.

Who doesn't want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated – it matters...that people matter.

I am who I am and that's it!

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.

Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

Scholes and Van Nistelrooy drugged the last two defenders.