A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

I cannot say to be glad or not glad to be on Everest. It is my life. I have opportunity to be here, so I am here.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people.

The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.