J.R.R. Tolkien Quote

If you caress me one more time, you will melt the butter on my toast.

The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...

Your driver is on the steer, driving you and you can feel free to doze in the car; this is trust built on competence. Competence is to ensure that your actions put people's hearts at ease when things...

One love, one heart, one destiny.

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...