To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Authors are sick people.

Feel happy and joyful like a fresh blooming spring flower.

Know who you are, feed the flower.

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. [Fr., Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots.]

He had lost Will Herondale. And he did not know if he could ever get him back.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.