"I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see."

Life is an all-encompassing art gallery. From the seasons ushering in change to the way a body moves during dance, from the way one smile paints another to the waddle of a street rat – every facet...

We don't look at the stars in the universe and say how tragic they are, how bruised they are, even though that is what they are. We look at them and speak of the beauty they contain. The inspiration...

See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL!

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.

You worry about a crack in the floor while the whole mountain is about to come down on us!

Sitting in seat 14A, in the sun, I float on a full - moon, tidal joy unlike anything I've ever experienced. I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it's always sunny above the...

When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret. When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which...

Yes, we have acquired a certain familiarity with the recent history of our surroundings, and that - in my humble opinion - allows us to put the present into much better perspective.

Fiction means the common things as seen by the uncommon people. Fairy tales mean the uncommon things as seen by the common people.

No whining on the yacht.

"Well you needn't have any 'feelings' about mountains," said Philip. "Mountains are all the same - just tops, middles and bottoms, sometimes with sheep on and sometimes without."

From a certain height, everyone looks the same - men, women, villains, kings - as if rank and fortune were simply an accident of perspective.

There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings. The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired — but that's not the start. The play, the game, the war is just a...

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why – unlike scientific progress – is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of...

We spread our sleeping bags on the snow and crawled inside. The vantage point was dizzying. It was impossible to tell whether the comet was above us or we were above the comet; we were all falling...

It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for...

This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?

But, as I have said, the bugs had no interest in getting us…and no great curiosity or enthusiasm about us as such; from the cowardly cockroaches to the blind stolid ants they wanted only to be left...

There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of...

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was the only book which allowed him to forget politics.

For several years, while I searched for, found, and studied black women writers, I deliberately shut O'Connor out, feeling almost ashamed that she had reached me first. And yet, even when I no longer...

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…

...otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, would go wandering off on a trajectory of his own, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by...

Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I'm in better shape than they are.

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.