"What puts my mind at rest is knowing I'm a person of integrity. I really do stand for what I say I stand for. I'm real!"

“Fear is the brother of hate.”

Source : "Ringworld". Book by Larry Niven, 1970.

“I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.”

“When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.”

“I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.”

“THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.”

Source : Sir William Blackstone (1973). “The Sovereignty of the Law: Selections from Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England”, p.29, Springer

“I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.”

“When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for.”

“The righteous one has no sense of humor.”