Reality's kind of a medium, maybe greater than paper. We all want life to have the same texture that we read about in novels.

A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before.

A versifier passes through the sound

I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interaction, rather than huge injustices.

Men are naturally unequal. They are unequal members of one family, in which one can be brilliant, another mediocre, and another an imbecile. Hereditary substance is a mystery.

Time, the ultimate arbiter of what is of value in life.

I am a passionate advocate of getting special interest money out of politics.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

The only disease you have is your inability to see you have the power to heal yourself.

I’m a little worried about Edward… Can vampires go into shock? Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 7, p.129