It is a fact that the human heart differs from all other species. While its function to the body is the same of all animals, its participation with human soul is both rhapsodic and fatal. -Rose

Fix was starting to see that this was the way life worked once you got older and the kids came

Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.

I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.

But you, you’ve always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe.

Without the confidence, nothing can be accomplished.

Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.

All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.