I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

We are the hero of our own story.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.

Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs

The things which hurt, instruct.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

If you're going to read five books, three should be issues and two for fun.

Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

There is nothing to do but be.

She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.

Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.