When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family.

It’s better to die pursuing your dreams and destiny, than to live a life in fear of failure.

You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.

There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.

As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.

The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

Get back to work you slacker or you're fired.

Fear, she's the mother of violence.