Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Let us not become so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance.

I existed until I met you. Now I'm alive.

The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.