...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.

Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king.

As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.

Houses, like people, have personalities, and, like the personalities of people, they are partly molded by all that has happened to them.

If what we already know were simply applied to all the agricultural land of the world and the problem of proper distribution were given consideration, the world could feed itself well.

It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea.

You don't think I'm going to deflower you under your father's roof, do you?

Give your mind permission to travel where the body cannot go and be open to all the wisdom that the universe has to offer.

Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10.

This isn't goodbye, okay. There are no goodbyes... not between us.

Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost, but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.