A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

Never expect anything less than devotion from someone who has claim on your heart.

Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her legs for 15 minutes.

I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.

Sometimes you have to fight with music.

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.

How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.