Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

The world was floods above and fire below

Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.It's just getting out of one car, and into another.

Cosmopolitanism is a radical affirmation of the idea of neighbor/enemy-love-as-self love...Cosmopolitanism is about a cosmic scope of justice and hospitality––another name for _love_.

Maybe his heart is searching for and not finding the place it used to live. I understand that because mine is searching and not finding too.

You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.

To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.

[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

Be quiet, or I swear to God I'll take you right here

The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.