Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman.

All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.

It is unnecessary to heighten the glory of day by comparing it with the preceding twilight.

Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth.

Unfortunately in today’s world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.

I was strong from losing them, maybe, but any goodness in me came from having them." (p. 124)

There must be some atom of our life hidden here, lingering in this quiet somewhere.

An oversupply of national sentiment is not the problem in Somalia. The problem is a lack of it. The problem is an oversupply of sub-sub-clannish attitude.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

Sometimes, when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step, you need to be the one to drive the change.

When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.

When we transplant organs, we are enabling viruses to jump natural barriers between species.