For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Worry is today's mouse eating tomorrow's cheese.

Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.

Free is not the same as free and easy.

The first step forward is to admit your fear, then you can take the next step to conquer it.

It’s called the Pyxis, ” said Raven. “Don’t let the fancy name intimidate you. It just means ‘box’ in one of those Old Earth languages, Roman or Spanish or Klingon…

Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume.

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?

I read whatever the publisher sends me.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.