You can stroke people with words.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Douglas Yates

Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

William Blake

Ye golden hours of Life's young spring, Of innocence, of love and truth! Bright, beyond all imagining, Thou fairy-dream of youth! I'd give all wealth that years have piled, The slow result of Life's decay, To be once more a little child For one bright summer-day.

Lewis Carroll

Ecology is rather like sex -- every new generation likes to think they were the first to discover it.

Michael Allaby

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

William H. Seward

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Jane Austen

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

Katharine Graham

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

David Brin

LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.

William Shakespeare

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

Benjamin Franklin

Once that ship has sailed don't hold on to the anchor

Stanley Victor Paskavich