"We have to work together to do a better job than we did in the last few generations."

“No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.”

“Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.”

“Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.”

“We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the thousands in small towns, and the hundreds in villages -- all these at once. Like a volcanic eruption, a spiritual revolution needs to spread through the country, to spur people to crucial decisions. People have to recognize the futility of splitting life up into politics, economics, the humanities, and religion. We must be awakened to a life in which all of these things are completely integrated.”

“Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.”

Source : Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

“I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.”

“Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.”

“The only thing more expensive than hiring a professional, is hiring an amateur.”