I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.

We do not stop. You all took the oath to come here. Hard work lies before us in breeding our new community. - Adrian

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself – self-discipline, self-control.

Monkeying around with other apes, a monkey was made - called, HUMAN. God is great!

Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.