The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Life is my greatest enemy.

Conflict of interest. I wanted to date somebody who was less screwed up than me, and she wasn't.

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.

Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing.

Beauty is a perilous gift.

It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.

It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing...uh, um...Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.

Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.