The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Life is like riding, you will only have harmony once you stop fighting it.

Just take me with you. Please.I cant.Please, Papa.I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.

Reason leads to conclusions. Emotion leads to action.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

There's me and then there's you, and you aren't ever going to be as good as me, Sweet Thing." Ranger

So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.

[John] Cassavetes, "Killing of a Chinese Booker", "Opening Night" are my favourites.

I don't let negative attitudes and meanness from other people keep me from living my life.