Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

When single shines the triple sun, What was sundered and undoneShall be whole, the two made oneBy Gelfling hand, or else by none.

I see you, Khya. I've always seen you. And except for you tendency to pretend you hate me most days, I like what I see.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.

Happiness is being married to your best friend.

I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.

Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.

I've been making pizza dough lately. And I'm pretty sure the calzone was invented when a pizza got stuck on the peel.

Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!