Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Charles M. Schwab

You are not what you seem. So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?

Orson Scott Card

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

R. I. Fitzhenry

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

Robert Mueller

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury, "Reader's Digest",

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

Jodi Picoult

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

John Ruskin

But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and recks not his own rede.

William Shakespeare

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

..I learned that there's a kind of love which must feel like coming home,...

Ellen Sussman

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.

Jewel