I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

For every force, there is a counter force. For every negative there is a positive. For every action there is a reaction. For every cause there is an effect.

Grace Speare

There is no better audience for someone in love than someone in love.

Emily Giffin

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

Konrad Lorenz

People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Grenville Kleiser

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

...perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

J.K. Rowling

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Thomas Carlyle

Keep not your roses for my dead, cold brow the way is lonely, let me feel them now.

Arabella Smith

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Angela Davis

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

Anatole France

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Isaac Asimov

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

William Barclay