No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost the story. It is waiting for you when you return. You can pick up a book and resume reading at any time, after a few minutes, a few days, even a few years. A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.

When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.

But even the law cannot be in your bedroom at night.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles