We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

As we'd slogged away for weeks on the Convention Hall stage in isolation, trying to pump life into our much-vaunted songbook, there'd been only one thing missing: you.

God of great miracles.God of great mercies.

Maybe He’s already given you a miracle. You just can’t see it.

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.