It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

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.

When you give appreciation IN ORDER TO get something– it's manipulation and people can sense it. Appreciate genuinely.

To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.

Good intentions might sound nice, but it's positive actions that matter.

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

Socialism is a monster which will die.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed.

I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

The sky was pure opal now.

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.