Two examples of irony:...a cheap knock-off of a Chinese Ming vase…made in China....getting murdered in a graveyard.

You can do anything…but before you can do anything, you have to do something.

Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle.

Regarding war and peace—the seed of each is planted in the other.

Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other.

All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.

We recognize authority based on whether we feel we could attain authority by the rules by which the authority was obtained.

Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.

Note from Alien cookbook: “The more intelligent the human is, the better it tastes.

If you can’t be brave in the face of adversity, at least be practical.

Amazing how too much passion in one part of your life can destroy passion in other parts of your life.

Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point

What should be boundless is one's love of life, not one's love of art or knowledge.

Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

There are only patterns. Patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns, patterns hidden by patterns, patterns within patterns.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

I'm all about flannels and layers, so that's pretty much what I rock.

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.