The morning was full of sunlight and hope.

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.

There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.

She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.

Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.

It seems to me if I were young and in love I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

She had resolved to never take another step backward.

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood.

There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.

Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

I've never been someone to count lines, look at it that way.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

Astrology is a disease, not a science.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.

I think I approach all of my writing in the same way. I mean, it's my job, and I'm committed to it. I don't just float around and wait for some muse to call.