you?-his words overwhelmed him with a realization of the cowardice which had driven him from her at the very moment of attainment. Yes-he had always feared his fate, and he was too honest to disown...

women never learn to dispense with the sentimental motive in their judgments of men.

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn...

With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side...

The time travelers are usually adept at intercrossing different fields of expertise. That's the beauty of the hobbyist: it's generally easier to mix different intellectual fields when you have a whole...

It may be that there is no place for any of us. Except we know there is somewhere; and if we found it, but lived there only a moment, we could count ourselves blessed.

When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years.

When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes them possible, they often become insensitive and...

I must warn you against the impression that mine is the final word on nonviolence. All I claim is that every experiment of mine has deepened my faith in nonviolence as the greatest force at the...

If the comments are wrong, there is really nothing for you to be upset about. On the other hand, if the criticism is accurate, there is still no reason for you to feel overwhelmed. You're not expected...

Because of your twisted thinking, you see yourself in a trap from which there seems to be no escape. You jump to the conclusion that your problems are insoluble. Because your suffering feels...

Life had shown him that logic and step-by-step planning hardly controlled events.

FORTY THOUSAND VISITORS descended upon Chicago in the middle of May 1860, drawn

All the cartoonists at heart liked him, and there was seldom or never anything bitter or really unfriendly in their portrayals of him; they were uniformly good-natured. Caricatures even transformed...

And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really...

When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you...

It is. And yet so few really are free. Nearly all people live in prisons of their own making, regardless of their faith, creed, sex or race.

You know, if you pretend not to be who you really are, you can end up with the wrong job, the wrong friends, God knows what else. Not your own life.

Mizzy has, again, wandered into the garden, like a child who feels no fealty to adult conversation.

What this all goes to show is that nonsense remains nonsense, even when talked by world-famous scientists. What serves to obscure the illogicality of such statements is the fact that they are made by...

"The crimes of the Germans are really the most abominable ever to be recorded in the history of the so-called civilized nations," he wrote the physicist Otto Hahn. "The conduct of the German...

Among the many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had getting an academic job.

Read it. But later that fall he seemed to have second thoughts about cooperating and, though I didn't know it, was hit

He had a sort of dry musty smell, like a fairly clean Chinaman.

She approached me with enough sex appeal to stampede a businessmen's lunch

A long fall. Dinah had ceased to even think in terms of up and down. The concept of falling had become meaningless to her.

And when horny, well-paid American flyboys are dropped into a culture defined half by cannibals and half by Frenchmen, you get a hell of a civilian economy.

What if the places you went and the things you encountered in your work were more interesting than what was available in the physical world around you?

If money is a science, then it is a dark science... it has gone on developing... by its own rules

We are the people of Misr, the old woman rasped. Since our Sunni ancestors fled from Nilotic al-Ourouba, we have known flight and death. The young go on that our people shall not die.