“One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little”

“Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.”

“More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.”

“To understand is to forgive, even oneself.”

“The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.”

“A man's home is his wife's castle.”

“But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In lif...”

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely ...”