Never meet trouble half-way.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Wedlock is a padlock.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

Good words cool more than cold water.

Where love fails we espy all faults.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

War is murder writ large.

I have always loved a challenge.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

There's always challenges to everything.

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.

God has more for you in your future than you could ever dream of in your present and he's already seen you in it.