When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

Be careful, " Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?

Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

Experience is something you get when you don't really want it.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

Remember also, the present is your only time to be saved. There is no believing, no repenting, no conversion in the grave---no minister will speak to you there. This is the time of conversion.

If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way, the truth will out.

Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.