There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.

The "result" of life is death, so when you create, the importance is not on the result but on the process of creating in and of itself.

[Hillary Clinton] has seen on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.

I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.

The sky is falling. No, I'm tipping over backwards.

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.