There is such a difference between life and theory.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

If you have something standing between you and your goals, don't wait for it to move... go around it.

Bringing Thoughts 2 Life

The medium obscured the message.

Instead of magnifying the problem in your thoughts, magnify God.

Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.

Activity does not necessarily mean life.

Postpone not your life.

This economic pie that is getting ready to explode before our eyes is going to be shared equally.