"Justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it."

"The art of living is discovering that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"The greatest deception is forgetting that shadows are only cast by the presence of light."

"He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death."

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

"Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away."

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."