Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Its hard to die. Harder to live

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ...

Eagles are extinct, " grumbled Morpurgo. "Perhaps they should have attacked the sky. It betrayed them.

My intellect was my greatest vanity.

Condemning war has not curbed armed conflict. Religion and education did not eliminate war. Warfare did not terminate more wars. Armed combat simply breeds endless wars.

It simply isn’t a woman’s nature to be silent for prolonged periods of time.

When you make a man ashamed, you make him dangerous.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.

If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.

Terrorist bombings, like rampage shootings, are events that maximize the amount of publicity per amount of damage. That's why people do them, because they know they will set off a media frenzy.

I want success. I want to do something. I really want people to remember my name.

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.