Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living.

He stopped complaining, but now I was annoyed. I went to the roof and drank alone.

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.

I did my gospel record, but there was nothing really of it. Maybe a hundred people bought it. But it's one of those things on the internet that people find and they make into a big deal.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Success is doing what you said you would do, consistantly, with clarity, focus, ease and grace.

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.