The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

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.

Life in the spirit is a saving grace.

Levels are just numbers. In this world, strength is just an illusion. There are more important things -Kirito

Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.

There is a case and a strong case for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

Hey now, none of that. You know I don't have one evil bone in my body. Only two hundred and six of them?

Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts?

The devil is not abroad at night in the form of a cat or a wolf or any other animal. He lives eternally in the hearts of men.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.