Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting

Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.

There's no such thing as forever.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-paleolithic ancestors huddled in vulnerable sleep. That group of nomads, cameleers, sheep and goat herders, farmers, and guerilla fighters lent credibility to the idea, for they snored so thunderously and with such persistent ferocity through the long, cold night that they would've frightened a pride of ravenous lions into scattering like startled mice.