When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.

And yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever.

A woman or a man creating feel very much the same way.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can't go.

Having never left the house you are looking for the way home

I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.

Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.