Wisdom

For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end she is as bitter as wormword, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death, her steps lay hold of hell.

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Satan walks nowhere on this Earth, nor has he ever, save where he treads within the human heart.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I try self consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent?

THE HEAVENSTo the mallet of the Highest MindThe heavens are the smallest possible ball.(Akhlaq-I-Mohsini).

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.

The animated cartoon has a lot to teach the writer, above all how to define characters and objects with a few strokes.

It feels nice to know about things and about oneself.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

I call architecture 'petrified music'.

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

A lingering grain of inefficacy capitulates to the arrogance of authority.