When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

Learn more about the character traits you have and those you want to develop

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.

The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.