Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.
Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.
A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.
Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack.
In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.
Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.
Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night
To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.
'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
So money is not the answer to problems; wealth mentality is.
If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.
Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler.
All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.
I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.
Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.
The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.
A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility.
Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?
We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.
Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.
Novels describe what it means to be alive at a given moment.
Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse
Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.