...It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.

In WASP families, if you don't get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.

Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?

I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.

A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line.