He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

It wasn’t that she believed in voodoo, precisely—but she believed in the people who believed in voodoo—and that was scary enough. -Coralee Ayers

And we have the same colour eyes. When I look into his, I feel I'm looking into myself.

Remember, America: organization will set you free.

Addiction struggle is believing you are separate from love. It took me a long time to glimpse that.

One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.