Plain as a pike-staff.

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Evil tongues never want a whet.

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

I was Ashallayn’darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

Hes gone. Hes just gone.

I tell myself he's better than he makes himself out to be, but, Tessa, what if he isn't?

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

It's hard to start from the bottom.

Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.

Part of wearing a tee is saying, 'I'm comfortable and casual.'

What I love about the game is that the game doesn't know who is supposed to win.