[It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven..

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be..

There will always be an underground..

A lot of problems in the world would be solved if we talked to each other instead of about each other..

Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me..

If you hit a Talib, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty. You must fight others throug….

Things are not going to improve for you in life until YOU improve.

The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be foll….

I was told I would be back in 90 days. If I listened to people, I would be back where I came from - the penitentiary..

In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing th….

I couldn't be happier..

And everything would be different, different..

There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major….

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were abl….

Africa is on the rise..

If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too..

If I were to go to heaven, and find that Christ was not there, I would leave immediately; for heaven without Christ would be hell to me..

After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control w….

Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor..

For whatever you live is life..

It is not peace that I seek, but life..