I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

Making something is HardMaking something you don't even CARE ABOUT isEVEN HARDER .

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

Who needs sleep? I laugh in the face of sleep!

Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.

Success has many fathers.

Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don't mean that you can't also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture any more.

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

I'll let you and Zia have some quality time," she told me. "Just the two of you and your coat.