"Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it."

“. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.”

“The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure.”

“Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.”

Source : "V.S. NAIPAUL : Wanderer Of Endless Curiosity" by R.Z. Sheppard, content.time.com. July 10, 1989.

“America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.”

Source : Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

“Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.”

Source : Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard (1853). “A memorial of Daniel Webster: from the city of Boston”, p.55, Little, Brown

“Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.”

“Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.”

“Outcasts of war, misfits, rebellious souls,Seekers of some vague kingdom in the stars -They hide out in the hills and stir up trouble,Call themselves prophets, too, and prophesyThat something new is coming to the world,The Lord knows what!Well, it's a long time coming,And, meanwhile, we're the wheat between the stones.”