For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

How you ever gonna reach the starsIf you never get off the ground?

It’s a lesson some writers take a lifetime to learn: what makes us care about things is other people caring, too.

There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.

I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.

Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.