Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.

Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action.