To fear what you do not understand is to mistake ignorance for safety.

I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list.

Tell me." Edward had to raise his voice a little. "Do you live by the principle that what people don't know can't hurt them?" "No," Harper replied. "What people don't know can't hurt me.

It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!

Being willing to listen to others and let them speak into our lives is a critical attitude leaders must have. It is not weakness to get good advice - it is strength to seek it out.

Dreams are possibilities, cherish your dreams.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune.

Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.