Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.

Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that’s me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills.

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

I think any writer coming on to Batman should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.

Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

Im not crazy, Im just a little unwell.