Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

Freedom is a clear conscience.

He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.

Democracy is better than tyranny.

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.

However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.

Nothing is impossible to industry (fortitude).

The Screamingflashed me back to a timewhen mom and dad were still togetherif you could call miles apart together.

The truth about life is complicated, indefensible and embarrassing.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous.

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and hard to move

And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.