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Our behavior toward others is often a reflection of our treatment of ourselves.
A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.
Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.
Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. "No, don't answer me.
I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge.
I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.
Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.
Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.
This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.
Real fear is like intense pain. It's there to warn you something's truly wrong.
I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.
The accusation 'unprofessional' means 'You did not behave like a machine today.
I always find that I'm at my best,' Eric said leadingly, 'when I'm at my worst.
I don't always burn my bridges, but when I do, I like there to be no survivors.
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.
The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage
The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.
A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.
when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.
The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic.
Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.
Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.
All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.
Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.
We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
After all, a crisis doesn't make a person; it reveals what a person is made of.
There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.
How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.