That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

Christ means Krishna, love of Godhead, Who has His face annointed with tilak.

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

So small, so blue, in grassy places / My flowers raise / Their tiny faces.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Markets really matter. Because the bigger the market, the more targets there are for the missile to hit.

Pelosi's problem is her spine doesn't reach her brain.

I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true.

Abortion-centered feminism is dead.

Many who later lost faith in Fidel Castro can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban revolution.