“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

— Gandalf (The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien)

“To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.”

— Jerry Pournelle

“I’m a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I’d want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It’s so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.”

— Zoe Saldana

“The powerful don’t make revolutions.”

— Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”

— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

“If you want to catch something, running after it isn’t always the best way.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold, Borders of Infinity

“A book’s alright when the weather’s foul and there’s nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?”

— Mercedes Lackey, By the Sword

“It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.”

— Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

“Pain means I’m still here, fighting.”

— Corine Solomon in Devil’s Punch by Ann Aguirre

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

— Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”

— Jules Verne

“One of the advantages of being a captain, Doctor, is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.”

— James T. Kirk in ‘Dagger of the Mind’ from Star Trek (1966)

“If it is stupid but it works, it isn’t stupid. (a Shin’a’in saying)”

— Owlknight, Mercedes Lackey

“It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.”

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.”

— Robert A. Heinlein