Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. - Nathaniel Hawthorne,

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Respect is mutual, if you don't respect others viewpoints, chances are they won't acknowledge yours.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But in my heart, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

That beautiful season . . . the Summer of All-Saints! Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Love the sinner but hate the sin.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Solid men of Boston, banish long potations! Solid men of Boston, make no long orations!

There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

I have offended reputation, A most unnoble swerving.

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.

Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.

[Magic] is not mere superstition. It can corrupt people who otherwise carry on their daily duties with apparent reasonableness and common sense... It exploits man's urgent desire for all the material good things of life -- health, prosperity, success, "good luck" -- and at times, it may even descend to aggressive acts against one's competitors and supposed enemies and rivals. It rests upon an assumption, not always explicit, that divine power can be manipulated and used for human ends. And it is the more dangerous among people who assume that since God is love, He will do whatever they ask, provided they use the right formula in asking. Magic mocks God's freedom no less than His purpose. For it binds men more and more in a prison of fear and selfishness. Far from liberating divine power, it shuts out the free and creative forces of love and self-sacrifice that alone ennoble life and remove the alienation of men one from another. Love, not compulsion, casts out fear.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.