A horse is wonderful by definition.

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

Information is power. --Humfrey

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

Obviously it could be, because it was.

There is a level of positive anger that needed to be alive and to make a head way in this life.

Given a choice between goose egg and heartache, I would choose heartache.

And then depression set in....

This is your story and you get to decide how it's written.

Hey, ghosts are nothing to laugh at! Whether or not you believe in them, they’re out there. I’ve seen them. I’ve even heard them.

What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

You never know when somebody will pull you to them.

True love is a process. True love requires personal action.

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.

Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?