Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!

There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it.What the devil was the reason?

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always.

I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.

We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.