Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word we came to his lips much more easily than I.

There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing.

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.

Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.

I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

I chose to wait to get my drivers license. Since I was working and I didn't have time, I got it like a week before my 18th birthday.

One person can make a difference.

Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.