Walking is a way of being somewhere, rather than striving to arrive.

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and does figure eights in mid-air is one of the miracles of humanly applied dynamics.

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

Either you like cats or you don't. Whole nations have been divided on what people thought of an animal that mates openly, walks in silence and keeps its own counsel.

For one to define and understand the nature of the universe, one must firstunderstand the nature of the force behind its existence.

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.

I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean.

These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.

Without God at the beginning, there can be only confusion at the end.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.

There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los Angeles].

I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

I often think about my future wife and how lax she's been about getting in touch with me.