“Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?”

Quoted in Jonathon Green, The Macmillan Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1996) p. 179
1990's

News conference in Italy, as quoted in "Dalai Lama says successor could be a woman" in Telegraph (07 Dec 2007) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1571850/Dalai-Lama-says-successor-could-be-a-woman.html

Source: The Surgeon

Original: Chi non ha alcuna forma di rispetto non merita alcuna forma di considerazione.
Source: prevale.net

Ramblings In Cheapside (1890)
Context: Propositions prey upon and are grounded upon one another just like living forms. They support one another as plants and animals do; they are based ultimately on credit, or faith, rather than the cash of irrefragable conviction. The whole universe is carried on on the credit system, and if the mutual confidence on which it is based were to collapse, it must itself collapse immediately. Just or unjust, it lives by faith; it is based on vague and impalpable opinion that by some inscrutable process passes into will and action, and is made manifest in matter and in flesh; it is meteoric — suspended in mid-air; it is the baseless fabric of a vision to vast, so vivid, and so gorgeous that no base can seem more broad than such stupendous baselessness, and yet any man can bring it about his ears by being over-curious; when faith fails, a system based on faith fails also.

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 3: Giants in Time
Context: In literature you don't just read one poem or novel after another, but enter into a complete world of which every work of literature forms part. This affects the writer as much as it does the reader.

Source: The Ministry of Fear