No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

GRACE means God Redeems And Christ Empowers!

What we say has conversational value

Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting?

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

Taiwan is democratic.

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.

A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.