Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

When your footsteps and thoughts carry you down the same path your heart and soul are directing you, you will know without a doubt that you are headed in the right direction.

every lord was a servant and every servant will be a lord.

If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.

I'm quite sarcastic, and I'm funny, but not kind of funny. It's a weird funny, and some people don't get me, and some people do.

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy.

There is no true life within a false life.

Failure is often the line of least persistence.

I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.