Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

If you meditate, you shall nourish your mind.

There will never be another you. The planet desperately needs your unique purpose, passion and presence.

I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack

We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.

Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.

We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.

There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought.

If you're lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.

Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.