To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

A woman never thoroughly cares for herlover until he has ceased to care for her

As if we'd fall for an obvious trap like that, " said Happy. "We're not going to fall for an obvious trap like that, are we? Oh shit, we are. I want to go home.

He flushed, the colour dark against his pale skin. 'I mean. Tessa Gray, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?' Jem.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.

Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?