A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Be not solitary, be not idle

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

If you like not my writing, go read something else.

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

The people that tell you what you enjoy is wrong, or come in your life and tell you what you're wearing is wrong are miserable because they focus on the things that they don't like.

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

You can't suffer over two things at once.

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!

Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.

Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense.

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.