The curse of the great is ennui.

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.

How can you be the best at what you do, when you don't even know what your strengths and weaknesses are?

A king who is renowned for mercy, " said the Arobern, with heavy irony, "must also be renowned in equal measure for injustice.

Turning into a vampire is like signing a supernatural contract and like any contract, there are clauses.And there is the fine print.

I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.

Chose you this day whom, not tomorrow, whom you'll serve?

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

I am more human than rational.

Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is.

You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.