Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

hard work + smart work = eye caching success, shortcut is not ever

Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car!

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

This was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for me again – unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality…

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

We aren't cool and never will be.

The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.

I never say never about anything.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.