True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence, and covered with confusion of face.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

Somewhere someone else’s break-through is hinging on you simply knowing that you matter. So please, remind yourself of this truth every single day.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.

There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is chaos, and there is crime There is no one home tonight, in the empire of my mind

I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.

I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.

No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.

I actually don't have a TV and I've been traveling so I've missing out on a lot of stuff.

But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.