He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

It was the smile which runs before a promise.

The very shadows seem to listen.

faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

Secrets...are the very root of cool.

I believe this is yours." I hand her the last dart in my hand. "And this is mine." I cup her face in my hands before she can think anything else, and I kiss her.

The window was open for us to play in the consumer as data, voice, video came together. This is where you have to have the courage to take good business risks because if you don't, you never win.

Fine! I'll throw on some clothes. Turn around. I'm in my pj's" "I'm a guy. That's like asking a kid not to glance at the candy counter.

I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

Knowledge is of more value than gold