I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life.

Jesus Christ turns life right-side-up, and heaven outside-in.

Carl F. H. Henry

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

Bill Mcglashen

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.

Lewis Thomas

The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning.

Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Pea

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Warren Buffett

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

George William Curtis

There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. From fear comes anger, hate, anxiety and guilt. It's true that there are only two primary emotions, love and fear. But it's more accurate to say that there is only love or fear, for we cannot feel these two emotions together, at exactly the same time. They're opposites. If we're in fear, we are not in a place of love. When we're in a place of love, we cannot be in a place of fear.

Elisabeth Kubler Ros

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Abba Eban

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris].

Thomas Jefferson

Truth, meanwhile, was a weaponthat even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it could be traded, or help serve an end, or produce aprofit.

Mark Allen Smith

Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

Oliver Herford

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

Sammy Davis, Jr.