The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.
People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.
He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool -- shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple -- teach him.
I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.
where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try to be silent; for a book is meant to give pleasure, and pain that is inflicted in black and white lasts for ever.
I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.
all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.
I don't believe in luck. . . . It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.
Patch stood over me, and a drop of rain slid from his hair, landing like ice on my collarbone. I felt it slide along my skin, disappearing beneath the neckline of my shirt. His eyes followed the raindrop, and I began to quiver on the inside.
In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.