Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

i immersemyselfin youlikei immerse myselfinto a beautiful story.

If people threw away their money as thoughtlessly as they throw away their time, we would think them insane. Yet time is infinitely more precious than money because money can’t buy time.

They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death, ” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf

Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

This is the beauty of social media: it helps you find people and then you can contact them fast and inexpensively.

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

What is accidented is reality.

The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent.