Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

We can be seized with panic of the fall, or inspired by the potential that lies within the fall.

You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, or anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a ‘negative person.’ It makes you human.

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

The key to success is simple. Make people dream.

I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

The #18 jersey will never be worn again

A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

In some quiet way, the expression and feelings of gratitude have a wonderful cleansing or healing nature. Gratitude brings warmth to the giver and the receiver alike.

Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.

Attaching a Creator to the boundary is metaphysical skullduggery.