... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.

Dating is all about the chase. It's fun!

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

Regardless of what we understand or do not understand, we are what we speak. That's how we are known.

I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.

New York at night, from its bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to the city, it took all my fantasies and set them on fire, turned them into flickering constellations of light.

In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence of market cooperation.

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars