By doing their best to destroy the Native people who had welcomed and sustained their forefathers, New Englanders had destroyed their forefathers' way of life.

Odd things happen in a battle, and the human heart has strange and gruesome depths and the human brain still stranger shallows;

She wanted to get at the hate of them all, to pry at it and work at it until she found a little chink, and then pull out a pebble or a stone or a brick and then a part of the wall, and, once started,...

With my bright shirt and stick with a hook on the top, I set off every morning to... clean the beaches. So many, oh so many human bodies lie there in the light. And so many souls are lost in darkness....

You've got to jump off cliffs - and build your wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY

I circumnavigate each cell in you Your merest molecule is right and true Look there for destinies indelible and fine And rare. Ten thousand futures share your blood each instant; Each drop of blood a...

You are not like the others. I've seen a few. I know. When I talk to you, you look at me. Last night, when I mentioned the moon, you looked at it. The others never would. The others would turn away,...

The Martians discovered the secret of life among animals. The animal does not question life. It lives. Its very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life.

The man who believes he can deceive the system and deceive us is definitely mentally ill.

That's the good part about dying; when you've got nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography.

When you move they can't get you 'A'

There are doors, after all, between the living and the dead, and they swing in both directions.

A song can last long after the events and people in it are dust and dreams and gone.

Yes, I, Gandalf the Grey,' said the wizard solemnly. 'There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is...

"They seem a bit above my likes and dislikes, so to speak," answered Sam slowly. "It don't seem to matter what I think about them. They are quite different from what I expected - so old and young, and...

O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! - Elves of Rivendell

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. But often, if you look for something specific, you may find anything else — and not always what you’re seeking.

I will not say do not cry, for not all tears are bitter.

Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet; night rushed over him. As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had...

And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for their habitation in the Deeps of Time and in the midst of the innumerable...

I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen...

you?-his words overwhelmed him with a realization of the cowardice which had driven him from her at the very moment of attainment. Yes-he had always feared his fate, and he was too honest to disown...

women never learn to dispense with the sentimental motive in their judgments of men.

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn...

With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side...

The time travelers are usually adept at intercrossing different fields of expertise. That's the beauty of the hobbyist: it's generally easier to mix different intellectual fields when you have a whole...

It may be that there is no place for any of us. Except we know there is somewhere; and if we found it, but lived there only a moment, we could count ourselves blessed.

When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years.

When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes them possible, they often become insensitive and...