It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.

Every reformation ruins somebody.

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.

We must be true ambassadors of Christ on the earth in order to be able to put an end to the plague of ignorance in our society.

But when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.

The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow

Maybe just being me was enough to be loved. I wasn't giving myself any credit.Now I knew that I h

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

In a dream it's typical not to be rational.

I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my basic gut reaction to that and that gut reaction usually becomes the title of the book.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.