A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.

Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.

The line of least resistance is to most people the lifeline.

Some people are jewels in the wrong setting.

Riches may not bring happiness, but neither does poverty.

It is wise to be sure, but otherwise to be too sure.

There are two kinds of trouble: The kind you have and the kind you haven't. There are but few of the first sort, but of the second there is no end.

What is Paris? ... Where nobody throws stones, for all live in glass houses.

Never expect too much from a friend and you will never want for one.

Enough of anything is plenty, but plenty to some people is never enough.

The penalty of greatness is to write autographs.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

You are not told that while you try to eliminate your boredom by playing games and chatting on social media or watching movies and making unnecessary phone calls your life is diminishing into vanity.

Be a learning machine. What made you money last year, won't necessarily make you money this and next year.

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

My quest to find a great role for myself started long before this film [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"]came around.

If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.