Let us live not only to serve God ourselves

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.

To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center.

Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

I can't get over this. Dad isn't Sam's dad? Dad is a friend? How was I supposed to know that? People shouldn't be allowed to sign themselves as Dad unless they are your dad. It should be the law.