My final thought, before falling into the golden haze of time travel, was that these adventures on medieval Óshéanús had been the greatest days of any of my lives, past or future.

Periapólí can only become the greatest city in the world if every boy and girl is born into a life where anything is possible.

She had stumbled on what was possibly the ultimate truth, the greatest wisdom of all - the search for knowledge never ends. It goes on and on forever.

Muslim and non-Muslim from across the world flocked to Baghdad to be part of Al-Ma'mun's project "Bait Al-Hekmah" or "House of Wisdom

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at.

The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first.

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.

I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.

In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes like that in America, because it's just not in the tradition.