Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground.

In life, we are all playing the game of thrones one way or the other

The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.

I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books.

Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.

If you play golf, you are my friend.

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.