I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.

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.

Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Facebook is that successful guy you’re supposed to want to date, but you can’t keep your mind off the beautiful freak in the corner. Twitter is my freak.

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task.

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

I know I'm good enough to contend in each and every major I play.

When my beloved arrives, I yawn. When my beloved departs, I weep.

I know that I don't have a perfect performance that I bring to set. I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable, based on what the other person gives me.

Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

You shouldn't shoot at every opportunity that passes by.