I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.

Everything in a story should be credible.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.

What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.

Kiss an angel good morning and love her like the devil when you get back home.

Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

He who knows himself knows others.

Sometimes I see movies and I get almost angry - because I'm like, I can never make that movie. It stems from a jealousy, but from a good kind of jealousy. It's inspirational.

The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.

Send out anger and impatience, and that's what you'll get. Send out love, and you'll get back love.