A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Out of the seven billion people sharing the planet with her, not one of them knew what was going through her head. Not one of them knew she was lost. Not one of them asked.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

I forgot to remember to forget.

To me the foundation of all life is in the ocean.

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.