The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Love is the symbol of eternity.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Prayer is the life of the soul.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.

I still believe this Life is a good joke. And if you treat it that way, you will never stop laughing.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

Now it wasn’t just that Xena was bisexual and kinda liked her gal pal and they kind of fooled around sometimes, it was ‘Nope, they’re married, man.'

Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me.

Before I chose Dauntless...I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to.