The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

I am longing for you in life and in deathAs the moon is longing for night and life is longing for breath

Sometimes broken hearts are needed, that way you will appreciate the one that handles it with care.

An editor asked me what led me to write erotica. I replied, "A dirty mind, excess words, and an overactive sacral chakra.

If you don't like your sister or don't get along with your father, let's find out if you like yourself. Let's not sugarcoat anything about it.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.

For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.