The world is not a rational place.

I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

Fun, like champagne bubbles, can't completely fill you up.

Longevity can't be the only test of love.

Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.

What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed

The author describes Lincoln's attitude in making a deal with a newspaper publisher as, "almost defiant transparency.

Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.

Get off my back, save a heart attack, ain't nobody humpin' around.

Perhaps I'll get used to this bizarre place called Hollywood, but I doubt it.

What the polls don't tell you is, though other polls do, is that if you do a study of CEOs, top executives in corporations, they're liberal.

You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.