Quotes from Books

Only the paranoid survive.

In business, not only is the right answer important, but the right question is important too.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Power is a game of appearances.

Never outshine the master.

Conceal your intentions.

The vagina is a place of power, a place of life, a place of creation.

I am an emotional creature; I am a woman.

The most important thing is to be true to yourself.

I would give the world to be able to walk through that door at 84 Charing Cross Road.

Books are my friends, and I have many of them.

I love the way you write your letters, they are like a good book I can't put down.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

I was in a society of women who were all unwell, and we were all trying to get well.

The line between sanity and insanity is often blurred.

I am not a victim, I am a survivor.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

When you are a woman, you have to fight for your rights.

The doctor is a man of the people.

Life is a great and terrible thing.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

We are all here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

There are two types of chess players: those who play for victory and those who play for the beauty of the game.

The most important part of my life is my chess.

In chess, as in life, the first move can decide the outcome.

The more we know, the less we can be fooled.

Hypocrisy is a vice that is often not seen until it is too late.

A fool is one who thinks he knows everything.

To be a good actor, you must be a good liar.

All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope.

It is the law of God that the sins of the father should be visited upon the children.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

In dreams, nothing is what it seems.

The interpretation of dreams is the via regia to a knowledge of the unconscious element in our psychic life.

Dreams are the means of fulfilling wishes.

The trick to the best way to do this is to make it seem as if it were all your own idea.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

If you want to be happy, be.

The best way to keep your word is not to give it.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

For in the end, it is the whole of the world that we are trying to understand.

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

She felt as if she were being given a second chance, a second life.

There are few moments in life that are as important as this one, when we realize we have the power to change our story.

The prince is a man of great virtue and goodness.

I have never been so happy as I am now.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

The only thing I can do is to love you.

It is not well to make great plans for the future, and then try to arrange everything in the present to bring them about.

I can’t help thinking that in a world like this, if people would only let their hearts speak, they would say what they really mean.

For in each man's mind, there is a little house, a lighthouse, where he sits alone.

The only way to deal with the future is to function efficiently on the present.

It was not for us, but for the future that we were working.

I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house.

There are darknesses in life and there are lights; you are one of the lights.

The blood is the life!

The very first glance of the world was a glance of sorrow.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.

I am a servant of the imagination.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

The truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always surfaces above lies, as oil does above water.

The truth is that the world is a stage and we are all but actors upon it.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy.

There is nothing more exciting than the sea.

I have no regrets, I have no remorse, and I will not apologize.