A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Wedlock is a padlock.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

Good words cool more than cold water.

Where love fails we espy all faults.

The only true thing is what's in front of you right now.

Drink, drink! Bacchus is the enemy of Venus."From The Diary Of An Orange Tree

The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

I've never told anybody this, so I don't know if maybe you shouldn't print it, but I've made plans. I'm only going to continue doing this for another 25 years.

Be a blessing to someone else.

My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.

They are either people of faith who have lost their faith from reading my books, or they are people who had already lost their faith, and something about my books encouraged them to affirm that.

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.