The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

Love without truth is sentimentality

I had a vision and made it happen.- Christina Lari, Olivia & Owen

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

Legislative activity is always best based on care for the people.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.