No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

This world is a business venture and only those that mean business reap bountifully from it.

I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.

People always had conditions. God's love was and is so unconditional.

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

[In art], less is more.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

I think people's soul - I think you can kind of see it - there's what they say and there's what they do.

All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.