Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The pursuit of common dreams only produces common results.

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

My buddies, we've always just tried to make each other laugh. I mean, just like all friends hanging out - that's the goal.

Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!

I have a future and I have a mind and I have things to look forward to,' but to me it's just about..I love to pitch so much.

It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

Infinite mercy flows continually But you're asleep and can't see it.

Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.