Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.

Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

Is our life not exciting enough? Or do the lot of you just have some kind of death wish?

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people.

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.

Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.