A creed is an ossified metaphor.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Will ye come with me?” he whispered.And she answered without hesitation. “Yes, please.

You've got the holy trinity of what a girl wants, she said. Cute, smart, funny. I don't think you realize that.

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.

It was worthwhile to come here only to see why Europe is rottening, why all this people - good for nothing - are the cause of all the Hitlers and Mussolinis.

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

Finish what you start. Keep submitting until it sells.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

Titles or awards are not the mark of your success. They are the beginning of a life-long sadhana.