Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.

Faith is the sturdiest the most manly of the virtues. It lies behind our pluckiest... strivings. It is the virtue of the storm just as happiness is the virtue of the sunshine.

I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes.

My husband keeps me really honest.

Once you've done that, push the thought of no thought away.

There are no flowers in the Moon; that's why the Moon is a boring place!

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.

Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile.