Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

Education gives you the ability to know it. Intelligence gives you the capacity to fix it. Wisdom lets you know when to do it.

God is just a name for our wonder.

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

What seems is not what is. Because, none knows what is left, when it is all right!

Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves, and it remains when all else is gone.

The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.

You've got to hae ground forces that are capable of going after them and rooting them out.

The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.

I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.