Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.

A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.

I felt like I was falling in love but maybe not just with her, with something else, another world, but maybe that's always what falling in love is like.

Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.

My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.

I love the concept of community energy.

Advice for playing Starseed Pilgrim: As long as you still have questions, continue.

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

I learned to write by writing.