Virtue like a dowerless beauty has more admirers than followers.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Genius is the gold in the mine talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular.

God’s grace is our greatest need for every good deed.

Their eyes persecuted him everywhere, eventually following him all the way into the darkness around his bed and into his dreams, like a madness that threatened to overpower him.

Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.

When you are done changing, you're done.

Start loving now, and you start Heaven now.

Everton are now hitting the ropes running.

Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.

I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.

Would I be as strong as that once I did that thing Christophe was talking about? Blooming? Would I smell like a bakery item? Or was that just him? Did he use pie filling for cologne?

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.