Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You must establish and maintain the beliefs that you are... capable, committed and destined to achieve your goals.
Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.
I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.
More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.
The Christian life is never static. One must either grow in grace, or there will be backsliding and deterioration.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.
if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.
Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.
I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.
The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void
Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.
New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.
Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.
I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.
I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.
She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.
I believe that it is appropriate for young people in society to revisit Malcolm's journey and his role in history.
Right now my life has an expiration date determined by my bank balance. Can I find something before my time is up?
Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.
I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.
You don't have to get in or out of a position all at once. Avoid the temptation of wanting to be completely right.
Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
It was plain to see the Hollywood undertakers take care of everything. If you die you don't have to lift a finger.
The resource from which God gives is boundless, measureless, unlimited, unending, abundant, almighty, and eternal.
Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.