My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

Fear, " the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.

She wants her cup of stars.

The language of a smile is charming, mesmerizing, meaningful, and often mysterious, but everyone understands a smile better than words.

Learn how to learn...then start learning

It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.

A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

Find her, blind her, see who designed her. Act like a dummy until you grind her.

He's true to God who's true to man.

For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with someone else's money. Not people who've just came out of business school.

When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians.