You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-""I think as a human being, " she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women- they just make more noise about being able to.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan, " he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart."-George to Alanna

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

Most volcanologists die in bed.

My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.