We have met and hated, fought and died before - you and I. Kepta to Garin People of the Crater. Andre Norton.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

Victory belong to the most persevering.

There's no night without stars.

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.

There is no cure for narrowness of mind.

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Better to honor the pinch of fear than regret the punch of fang.

Winners don’t think defeat. They think victory.

(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

I can't count how many goalposts I've hit!

Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

Life's a song,sing it

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.