Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, 'How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity.'

The space elevator's not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space.

Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

Anyone will say anything under torture.

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.