I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance.

Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists.

When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.

You're afraid because you're thinking about the end, not about what you're doing.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

It's not Planned Parenthood. No, it's planned genocide. You can quote me on that.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind

Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.

After I'd gotten a year under my belt in college, I thought I'd outgrown my home.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.

All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.

Only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real change take place.

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.

There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good.

Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end.

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