Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

Your mother sets you up blind dates? With guys like that?" The corners of his mouth twitched. "She doesn't like you very much, does she?

The first thing that success would teach you is to differentiate the good and bad people around you

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.

Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.

I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

People don't realize where unsweet tea came from. During the war they had to ration sugar, so then everybody just had to drink bitter tea, or unsweet.

Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world.