Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.

Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.

There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.

Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.