Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.

You develop faith by doing things that require faith.

The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

My credit card company says I have an outstanding balance. I'm flattered.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a writer's thought.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.