Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns I am thankful that thorns have roses.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

The rose and the thorn and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Life is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

In The Touch the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

My life is part humor part roses part thorns.

Advance and never halt for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path for they draw only corrupt blood.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on and fear not the thorns or the sharp stones on life's path.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.