Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

The perfect scenario is when you are living your dream, when you have found your gift and when you are working to bring it to perfection

It is a blessing to experience hardship. Not because we suffer, but because we learn to endure.

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.

Nice jewelry and a boys corpse. Oh you're so pretty.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm sick of this poem, you probably are too.

If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.

Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy.

The pressure of the hands causes the springs of life to flow.

We need to put in proper safeguards. How are we going to feel if somebody leases to the Taliban?