Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.

Macey couldn't decide whether to be intrigued that Hale was walking around with a state-of-the-art covert communications device or be jealous because she'd been caught without one of her own.

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

If you're not where you want to be, it's because you're not who you need to be right now.

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

I say a lot of things I shouldn't say.

I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.

In music, all hearts are revealed to us.

This is the blood's wild tree that grows the intricate and folded rose

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.