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

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.

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.

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

wear your treasure and you will be Treasured

...she'll cry, and if she does, I probably will, and then she'll have found a way in, and I will not let her pierce my walls in a Trojan horse of sympathy.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

I'll place my love beneath the stars.

The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.

The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.

The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.