In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce, and worldly pursuits.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

Past glories are poor feeding.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

The clown’s eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. “But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her.

Parenting now is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other.

By your work you show what you love and what you know.

All of life is a wager

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge

Eating out doesn't have to be a formula. Eating out is about having fun. I get really frustrated when it's badly done.

'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity.

The smartest advertising is the advertising that communicates the best and respects the consumer's intelligence.

Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.