Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.

Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.

There is nothing good in love but the physical part.

Time is the great workman of Nature.

Style is the essence of man

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction.

Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you, " I say. "Controlling you is.

Everyday you have a new chapter to write about your journey of life. As you write that chapter do it so well such that if others read it, you would still be proud of yourself.

It’s not about fancy literary prizes. It’s not about seeming impenetrable or smart or high fallutin. I’m not trying to impress anyone. I am trying to make you feel a story, that’s all.

That’s why it’s difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.

The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.

Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.