Wicked companions invite us to hell.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

Sometimes you have to smile to keep from crying.

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.

If you're Obama, can you imagine being lectured to about honesty and integrity from a convicted perjurer, Bill Clinton? My gosh, folks, I mean, literally how far has one fallen when that is the case?

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a better place.