If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

The human heart isn't meant to be caged by someone who doesn't feed it.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

I think that every day we are taught lessons and sometimes we don't realize or see it.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.