Author Quotes

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.

I don't name sources.

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.

Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.

Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.