A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Beauty is only skin deep.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

Things were first made, then words.

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.

All that exists is the present moment

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.

A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened.

I'm going to fight for every citizen of every background from every stretch of America.

I write, but I also act.

If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'

Each person is different and each one will reach God by his or her own path.

I love books about dysfunctional families.

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries