Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.

No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality.

If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made.

I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.

Only in the silence of our mind are we One.

When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was -- gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.

I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way?

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

You go to him for advice? He’s only what? Five years old? I swear I own older sweaters. (Tory)

Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.