Please all, and you will please none.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

He wanted nothing to do with her. He wanted everything to do with her.

Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.

I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.

My job is to make people happy. And the people that I make happy, make me happy.

If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel it immediately.

Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.