Author Quotes

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

A good beginning makes a good end.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.