If envy were a fever all the world would be ill.

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.

Bad is never good until worse happens.

Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

A man must constantly exceed his level

Necessity is the ethnicity of truth.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

The only thing you can never change is your values.

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.

Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart; Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.