It surprises me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!

At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.

In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you,' I said to her.

The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.

The only way to end war is communication between people.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things