It's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy.

does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people?

there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.

The lesser evil is also evil.

the best committee's a committee of one!

... the fishermen of Port Sonas care only for the two things, fishing and women. And there's some that are no' that keen on the fishing.

Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it... All about him was safe.

For all its accolades and celebrated recognition as sound guidance, I have personally noticed that sometimes, 'follow your heart, ' is really bad advice.

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms.

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one

Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).