Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken instead to the angel on your shoulder.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.

Well, there are some who claim I'm more of one nation than another, but that's not true, Eddie. I'm of all nations, I play no favorites.

Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.

Wow, " she said. "It's like you're teaching me something and being all wise.""You are not easy to get along with, " Skulduggery said.

I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits.

It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

Don't take things too seriously.

Familiarity breeds contentment.

I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.