If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
Too much philosophy makes men mad.
I hear better with a pen in my hand.
Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height. . . . Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art.
Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.
Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.
Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.
Focus on your dream and do everything in your power. You have the power to change your life circumstances.