After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Find my weak points, but more importantly, find yours.

God draws near to us in such a way as to draw us near to himself within the circle of his knowing of himself.

When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

It takes much more energy to ignore things than it takes to deal with them and not be afflicted by them anymore.

Im straight... But my girl a faggot... Potato on the barrel... Potato salad

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

I don't have too many pests. My concept is this: I manage myself, and there's nothing wrong with people having managers.

Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.