The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

Hypocrites, ’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

Many are called, few are chosen.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

What really makes the difference in innovation is whether the corporate culture is paying attention to innovation.

I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.

King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

Well that was sucktastic

We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.