It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

You came here because we do this better than you and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are.

If you can learn to motivate yourself, you can always tap into an abundance of energy that will drive you to the success you dream of.

Noble ancestry makes a poor dish at table.

Five years from now you will be pretty much the same as you are today except for two things: the books you read and the people you get close to.

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

What I do shows people what kind of person I am.

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

If a guy won't commit, he's a player.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.