But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Not all questions can be answered.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

He could not fit in my imagination and I was not fit for his Real and the conflict between imagination and real sadly made us apart

Instead I’ve built a house made of lies that have come crashing down around me.

It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.

A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values.

But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.

A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.

Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed in paint.

I just haven't found anyone that I want to spend long periods of time with.

To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.