Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

Forget about letting nature taking its course to make you wealthy, Cosmic Ordering works faster.

(Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out.

People don’t want to be millionaires — they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

Lila cringed at the ghost of Barron's words, a memory with edges still too sharp to touch.

A real hero doesn't expect to be thanked or even recognized.

When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.

You bring yourself to every role, it doesn't matter who it is, it doesn't matter if it's a mass murderer, you can bring something to it.

Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up.

Metal musicians say dumb things sometimes.

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.