Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.
We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.
Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.
I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.
I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.
as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!
When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.
There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.
The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.
Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).
We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.
It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.
The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.
Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.
I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go.
Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.
I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.
You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.
Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.
He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.
Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .
At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.
There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so.
I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.
I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.
If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.
Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.
Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.