The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. – Herbert Hoover
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. – Herbert Hoover
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war. – Herbert Hoover
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. – Herbert Hoover
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. – Charles de Lint