Kisses could lie as well as words.

There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom.

Losing one pint of blood's an accident. Losing two is carelessness.

As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.

This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things.

They've all got stories, Jess thought. I need to know them. Best of all, he could know them. He could learn anything here. It felt like limitless possibilities.

I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

I'm a Valley Girl. You can't get me out of the Valley, I'm still here.

Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.

It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.

I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

God is at his greatest when I am at my least.

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.