A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

She burned too bright for this world.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

He’s more myself than I am

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.

We all fear change, even as we seek it.

If you don't have two states, you have one state, already the non-Jewish population outnumbers the Jewish population in one state.

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.