My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.'

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

Sebastian grinned into his drink. Rules. He loved rules. They were so much fun to break.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).

In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

I had a lot of challenges losing the weight. I still haven't lost the weight yet and I don't plan on going back to the body I used to be at. I love my sexy curves!

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.

There was more to life than the things you could hold in your hands or see with your eyes.

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!