Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

Don't tawch meh matherfawker!

Cigarettes are called coffin nails for a reason, Billy Boy, " I remembered telling him. "Be careful with those things. You're risking your life.

Prayerful life, blessed life.

Make good choices and always do your best.

It's not your imperfections that make you attractive, it's your honesty about them that does.

Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.

The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

There's a Big Trump and there's a Little Trump.