It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there.

For he did not seem to know any way to do a person a kindness but by killing him.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.

Move fast and break things.

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.

We die, because we live.

But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.