The road simply ended. No cul-de-sac. No sign like the ones they had seen before: "Private Property. No Trespassing." Or "No Motorized Vehicles Beyond This Point." Just road...then trees.

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid

Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.

He lowered his eyes to his dad's face. There was fear there. Fear. When your dad was frightened, there was something to be frightened about.

Nothing but trees.

If I guess your secret, will you tell me if I'm right?" His father laughed but didn't answer.

Live to fight another day was an expression that did not take nto account the loved one who would die because you didn't continue fighting today.

Xander could sense more than David's smile. He wished he could be more like that, easygoing. But then, David hadn't seen what Xander had seen.

I don't know...just a feeling, like in..." Xander thought for a moment. "Star Wars. You know, when Han Solo says, 'I've got a bad feeling about this'?

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.

I was born into the business. My mother was an entertainer. It was natural. But yes, in the next life, I might not do it.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

It seems the public in Europe has not yet learnt that most girls in India today go to school.

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

More than my own life

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.