It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

Why do I do it to myself? Why don't I get an ordinary job?

Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

$1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.

Whenever I do something I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.

I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.

I knew life Began where I stood in the dark, Looking out into the light.

Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.