You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

Stop talking, " she said boldly as she closed the distance between them until they were touching. "We can walk to the bedroom or you can carry me but if you don't decide soon I may just go insane.

You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.

In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.

Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.

Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod

If someone says something good or bad, or whatever they have to say about your song, you've just got to embrace it.

Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

The more heart, the more sorrow.