Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

Death is only a translation of life into another language.

What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.

Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.

Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining.

When you get pushed down, you pick yourself up and move on. I've never been a victim.