I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

I am one thing, my writings are another.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

Shorth is better than length.

You might be a redneck if you think people that send out graduation announcements are show-offs.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.