Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

My so-called failures have been some of my greatest learning tools. I just make sure to fail up.

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast."

Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement

All things being equal, people want to do business with their friends.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.

God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.