Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

Past glories are poor feeding.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

The clown’s eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. “But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her.

Whenever there is a conflict between pink and blue, let the pink win, happiness is more important then colors.

The best way to cleanse the world from monsters is by not becoming one.

I think there's a really mature side of me that can deal with problems - but when I'm with my friends, I get to act much more kidlike.

The relationship between [John] Adams and [Tomas] Jefferson was extraordinary. They differed on every conceivable issue, except on the Revolution and the love of their country.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.

I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.

By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.

I always wanted to be on a sitcom.

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden