Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.
No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.
There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.
I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.
A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.
If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.
If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.
Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms.
Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans.
With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.
New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.
Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.
People who can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of its solution.
You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl. "None," I said. "I've heard that about you.
I have 10 brothers and sisters. My mother raised us because my father died when I was 8.
The war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on.
Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.
The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.
Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.
I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.
Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.
Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.
Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.
Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.
The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, When Allah loves a people, He tries them.
These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.
I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.
If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.
Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!