Anne McCaffrey

“A great man is one who has not lost the child's heart.”

“Make no judgments where you have no compassion.”

“To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and struggle with the enemy.”

“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”

“Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower, steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.”

“Any student of history knows that kingdoms rise and fall.”

“Use your head. That's what it's for. Smarts, not memories.”

“What's the good of breeding dragons, if you can't ride them?”

“Fighting is necessary in training, but fighting for its own sake is brutal and stupid.”

“Prejudice is a disease. And when it gets into your stream, it's arsenic.”

“There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story.”

“I have a computer, a vibrator, and a cat. I don't need a man.”

“Credibility is a most fragile shell.”

“A man is what he does, not what he says.”

“Tears are a release, not a weakness.”

“Work your assets, girl.”

“Nothing is ever simple.”

“Sleep is a weapon!”