NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now.

The wonderful wizard of Oz - when was a child I loved the movie and I read the book when I got older and made me amazing

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.

I think that we need to be careful, as reporters and as journalists, not to take the bait and not to get into an endless discussion about issues that are trivial.

No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

At the end of the day, when we measure our healthcare, it will not be by the diseases cured, but by the diseases prevented.