Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.

Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.

All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.

To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?

It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Always give chance for the things you don't want. Cause sometimes they turn out to be the great things you'll ever have.

All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.

Just because you're a luxury brand doesn't mean you have to have an attitude.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation.

We can't let others judge information for us.

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

Evil depends on where you're standing.