Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves..

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side..

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyw….

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, ….

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people..

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an a….

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty..

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we….

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness..

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to..

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdo….

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animal….

Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence you to a lifetime of worki….

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past..

We have to go. I'm almost happy here..

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail..

The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elu….

I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And lo….

...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, becau….

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship..

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade ….