A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Every man reaches his destination, if he just keeps walking

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

How do they taste? They taste like more.

In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.

Be happy with who you are, where you are, for this is the way.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.