Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

Racism and hatred are synonymous.

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a “dangerous enemy.

Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.