There is no teaching to compare with example.

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

A boy is naturally full of humor.

Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The "better life" she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one.

Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

Half my fan mail comes from Japan.

To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.

The people are like water and the army is like fish.

We live in an age of publicity and hype. There's something about success that dehumanizes you, whereas failure reminds you of who you really are.

Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?

I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?