Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

We must play our part and do all we can to multiply the people of God

Love is the greatest force in the universe.

To be alive, to be man alive, to be whole man alive: that is the point. And at its best, the novel, and the novel supremely, can help you. It can help you not to be dead man in life.

My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.

The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.