“If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you’ll be a laughingstock to those who really know.”

“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

“You can get addicted to trouble if you’re not careful.”

“Some people are loving no matter where they are or what they do.”

“سأجدف بعقليفي نهر الفرححين أجد مكانه على خريطة الحياة”

“To be noble, help others to succeed.”

“He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.”

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of ‘Quotography’ (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: ‘Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments’.”

“In uncharted territory, we need new thinking, new ways of processing intense emotions, and new behavioral choices.”

“You totally need to watch the news.””Can’t.””Why?””It’s too depressing.””Right, because hanging with dead people isn’t.”

“Time’s a goon right? Isn’t that the expression?”

“The truth has become an insult.”

“Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don’t let Umber near the arrows and bows; he’s liable to shoot himself in the nose.” Dodd grinned and snapped the reins, and the carriage rolled away. Umber sniffed. “One of his lesser poems. Come, Hap.”

“Time cures you first, and then it kills you.”