If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Keeping or holding on to a concept shows belief but building or adding to it shows confidence and depth of character.

In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.

For every question, there is a book.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

Nurses never tell you what they know. They're hired for their cheeriness and the thickness of their hair. They need to look alive and healthy, to give the patients something to aim for.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

I love going out dancing. There is nothing better than letting your hair down and staying up far too late, is there?