"I’ve often wondered why the Protestant Reformation took place in Germany, rather than in Poland. Then I realize that Luther had to nail his 95 theses to the church door, and the Poles didn’t know how to operate a hammer."
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"There’s nothing more important than literary merit, and that’s why I not only created an award—the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award—but I nominated myself as the first recipient. You can’t always wait for success to come to you. Sometimes you just have to create it out of nothingness. Just ask the Federal Reserve."
"In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'"
"And besides . . . I don’t want to leave you. Er, you guys.”He smiled, and it lit up his whole face. “Well, ‘we’ are certainly happy to hear that. Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you’re in St. Louis.”I grinned back."
"I love the sound of the trees in the breeze. If the forest is so clearly musical, why can’t it play the guitar while I sing Nirvana covers?"
"Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love."
"Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places."
"I am not what you are. I am only what I can see. I am me."
"Do what you love, think what you feel and live the way you want."
"Live your epitaph"
"How long have you been a Wiccan?''A what?''A pagan. A witch.''I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.'Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?''Wizard has a Z'He looked at me blankly.'No one appreciates me.' I muttered."
"Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions."
"Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning."
"فالنفس المختلة، تثير الفوضى في أحكم النظُم، وتستطيع النفاذ منه إلى أغراضها الدنيئة، والنفس الكريمة ترقع الفتوق في الأحوال المختَلّة ويشرق نُبْلها من داخلها، فتحسن التصرف والمسير، وسط الأنواء والأعاصير"
"He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you."
"I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe."
"When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way."
"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
"In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks."
"Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer."
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