When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.Lotte Lehmann

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

I will still carry on changing all the time.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

With Crucible, any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect.