True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Like everyone, I want my soul to thrum. I run my long nails over the keys like I'm scratching the back of a lover.

When you think of someone with love, your heart dances with joy.

Women wear heels because they think they make their legs look thinner.

A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats.

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

I'm most comfortable in T-shirts, but they have to have some style to them.

THERE are joys which long to be ours.

Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of justice since there are lots of good and respectable people in the world.

The best way to get acid out of your body is to wash it out. The best way to wash it out is to provide plenty of water to do the job

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.