Self-help is the best help

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.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

I balance you on the end of my pen.Teetering between loveand letting go.

Cat herding is simple. Just drag a string behind you.

If life’s big puzzle makes you feel broken and shattered, we hope that our book will help you look at the spaces between each piece. You’ll find the answers here.

Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor.

I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.