It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

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 dividing line forms-fashioned from:Dragon's tearsMissed yearsOvercome fearsThe fire and ice paradoxSeen with True SightDarkness does not always equate to evilLight does not always bring good

You are more powerful and intelligent than you think.

Sorrow is a fruit God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.

A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.

On the intimate relationships, I'd say you can be someone who wouldn't normally get attention in traditional media and come onto Instagram and build this massive following.

It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.

That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than highway full of hummers.

I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.