The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

Writing is a gift to both the writer and the reader.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

In Technology We Trust. Need to put that on the new hundred-dollar bill.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

If you count all fights like everybody else does, including Rickson, who says he has 400 fights; if you count like that, I have a million.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.