What distinguished him in a moment of crisis was his self-command.

Confrontation was the stuff of daily life.

He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness.

The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information.

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal.

There is strength in numbers.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.

Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And he puts the team team first-there's no fanfare with him.

He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.