I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Fortune favors the audacious.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

When the world seems against you then your own confident and willpower will lead you till you reach your goal..

Dani said this woman, with whom she’d lived for two years, had never known her. “I feel like people accept the first thing I show them, ” she said, “and that’s all I ever am to them.

Best friend my well-spring in the wilderness!

November at its best - with a sort of delightful menace in the air.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

Finding someone to share your life with is one of the most important things a human can do and was preached to me by my mother.

Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

I always look toward teens on Instagram to really understand what's going on. For some reason, when you're a teen, you just understand the world better than anyone else.

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.