Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.

The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

To me absurdity is the only reality

A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.

Successful people reject rejection.

The bigger question, rather than what's true and what's false, is what do we want?

What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.

It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.