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.

I have only one power that is my power of love.

But if government is in the business of promoting what is good and suppressing the bad, that is a license for it to stick it’s nose into virtually every human activity.

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises of various people.

Unless you know what you want, you can't ask for it.

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.