The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

We have met and hated, fought and died before - you and I. Kepta to Garin People of the Crater. Andre Norton.

Victory belong to the most persevering.

There's no night without stars.

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.

There is no cure for narrowness of mind.

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

When the bell rings, and lunch is over, I decide to come back here tomorrow, and the next day. I tell myself it really isn’t that bad.

Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories.

All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die?

In the distance, mongrel dogs were howling out the coyote portion of their ancestry. All the sounds of the night seemed to pass through a hollow tunnel of indefinite length.

My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others with intent to enhance the glory of his own sect, by such conduct inflicts the severest injury on his own sect.

My front door had seen jean skirts, dresses, even a see-through tube dress over a string bikini. A handful of times, spackled-on makeup and glitter lotion. Never pajamas.

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.