An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.
It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.
Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set the processes of modernization in motion. Education brought not only the idea of equality but also another belief which we used to take for granted in the West-the idea of progress, the idea that science and technology can be used to better human conditions. In ancient society, men tended to believe themselves fortunate if tomorrow was not worse than today and anyway, there was little they could do about it.
man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.
The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.
All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?
Express yourself, don't hurt yourself.
Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.