We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

I'm thirty-five and remember all that I've done wrong.

Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

We have great people, we have a depleted military.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

The goal of our sanctification is that we place Christ on display in the way we love others.

Today was tomorrow yesterday so don't inhale.

I've never thought of leaving the South, never.

You I expected better of." He turned his swirling sliver gaze from Sam to Dev and Fang. "You two not so much." -Acheron