Yin and Yang are one vital force -- the primordial aura.

Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.

To know and not to act is not to know.

The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.

Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.

Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.

No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.

If you kick a lion when it is down, God help you when it gets up.

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

The aura of uninvincibility has gone, if there is such a word.

Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.

To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.

A lot of young people think they're invincible, but the truth is young people are knuckleheads... Now young people can get insurance for as little as $50 a month, less than the cost of gym shoes.

A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.