Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.

I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?

The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

Seeking revenge is like reaching out for your own personal turmoil, it's never worth it. Righteousness will always come through Jesus Christ.

The cold feel of the leather...Peeking at the world from my other eye...It was strangely exciting...

I read the whole Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. They don't take long.

Hillary Clinton talks a good game. But she doesn't do anything.

Without intuition there would be no vision of future possibilities.

You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor.

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.