The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.

There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.

He had no racial feeling—not because he was superior to his brother civilians, but because he had matured in a different atmosphere, where the herd instinct does not flourish.

In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.

A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air...

Stop comparing yourself to others. Always strive to improve yourself to become better today than you were yesterday to serve those around you and the world.

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

Money isn't the most important thing. It is important, of course. I am not Mahatma Gandhi.

I have multipersonality disorder - in a very good way, of course - when it comes to my fashion choices.

At the doors, people are telling me they are afraid to let their children go to the movies.

People ask all the time, 'What would you be doing if you weren't Kid Rock?' It's simple: I'd be broke Kid Rock.

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.