"When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be."

“With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.”

“I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them.”

“Bridget adds, "Did Anyone bring a weapon?" "Confiscated," Zach admits for both of us. Vesper holds up her metal fingernail file. "They didn't take this." We're dealing with the forces of evil," I point out. "Not the TSA.”

Source : Cynthia Leitich Smith (2012). “Diabolical”, p.145, Candlewick Press

“Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?”

“To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.”

Source : Journal, December 31, 1893.

“Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.”

Source : Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

“Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.”