The truly noble heart sacrifices itself for others’ good, to defend the weak and the good against evil. To a heart like this, a heart devoted to chivalry, courage is a matter of form.

To be a good ruler one must be the best of servants.

When we are in Christ His goals are now our goals, and we are to be busy with his work on earth.

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched- they must be felt with the heart.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.

I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.

There are so many images out there, so many clothes out there, and the only ones that look interesting to me are the ones that look slightly mistaken.

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.