We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like that, we're gone. The Peacemakers (The Nemesis Engines)

We become the books we read.

Memories fade but words hang around forever.

I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker.

It's just overwhelming just knowing your dream is here in front of you.

It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.