If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,” said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.

Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.

Look up . . . and see them. The teaching stars, beyond worship and commonplace tongues.

So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?

He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.

Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

You are powerful, if you choose to be.

Your mind couldn't rest like the other little boys. You looked around and you saw the blanket of fear covered the whole country.

I hate everything about you that you do and love everything you don’t

The only things worth counting on are people you can count on.

You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.

You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.

The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong.

Instead of hearing, "Oh, he's good," I'd rather hear, "Wow, you changed my feelings today, you made me feel different."

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together.