Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Evaluate and assess your life on a daily

in my dreamsi need not to die everyday to be free

This is it.

pg. 301--"Saturday the weather couldn't decide if it was ready to fully entertain winter or if we were still stuck in the fall."pg.349--"...winter showed up in an angry, punishing fury...

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

A lot of times I'll post things on Facebook, and the immediate response will be like, "Stick to the music!"

Good sexual chemistry is fundamental to a vibrant intimate relationship.

Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.