If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

Order, thou eye of action.

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

When Hailey was born my first thought was that I needed a drink and that hospitals should have bars in them.

Every word written is a victory against death.

We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.

Absorb ideas from every source.

I just got my first bikini. It's a three-piece: a top, a botton, and a blindfold for you.