The moment you realize your eyes hurt not because of rubbing them, but because of the tears you wasted, on him.

Love always hurts, Always. It’s what you do with it that makes it durable.

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.

It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't be careful enough.

Even if you succeed in study and business, if your nation collapses, then what good is it for?

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot.

Who comes first? Don't be silly, says King Hal; it's employees. That is - and this dear Watson, is elementary - if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.