“Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.”

What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

If you’re involved in an accident and you’re at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?

Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head.

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They’re worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.

The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

What the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.

Contraries are cured by contraries.

As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn’t know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.

I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I’ll just keep writing them until they do sell–and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.

Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That’s one big horror story. And it’s the most popular book on the planet.

There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though – ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature – and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away.

The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.

It was bad enough when i thought your ghost was haunting me; i don’t think i could handle the real thing.

Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.

The greatest help you will ever have in this life is the Holy Ghost! Cultivate him as a friend and constant companion.