You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."— Seneca

The universe is infinite, and the experiences and opportunities available to us are likewise.

There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end.

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

A first-place team? You're always excited to become a part of that.

Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.