"Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that."

“Susan Rebecca White has a keen sense for how her characters talk and think. An impressive debut.”

“Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.”

“I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness.”

“I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant man can occasionally make a mistake.”

Source : "The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire". Book by David H James, p. 12, 1962.

“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.”

Source : "Stranger in the Village". Essay by James A. Baldwin, first published in Harper's Magazine (1953), republished in James A. Baldwin "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), and later quoted in "Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin's 'Stranger in the Village'" by Teju Cole, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2014.

“Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century.”

Source : "The Masters".

“God chose Israel not because they were superior but because of what He could do through them for others.”

“The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round, Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound, Our breasts are heaving, our eyes are agleam, Our arms are waving, our lips are apart....”