I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

If you do something and it saves your life, it was good taijutsu. In a real fight, you aren't worried about what's pretty.

Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

You have to pay attention to details to have success in the playoffs. You can't take anyone lightly.

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.