Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Lao Tzu

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Cyril Connolly

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

Aung San Suu Kyi

We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution makes it even clearer. But it doesn't. It is by no means clear that it means anything at all. Or if it means anything, it means so many different things to be misleading, even pernicious.

Richard Dawkins

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

William Shakespeare

Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

James Allen

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Elizabeth Moon

Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read that book.

John Green

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

Stockwell Day

The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.

Juliette Lewis

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Gilbert K. Chesterton