Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one.

Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

Play along, the wink said. I'll get you out of this. At least Artemis hoped this was what his wink communicated and not something like 'Any chance of another kiss later?

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.