Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

An idle mind was a recipe for disaster. Bathsheba wasn’t just teetering on the edge

Integrity is a life where your beliefs and intentions are aligned with your words and actions.

If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds.

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

Donald Trump's impulsivity concerns me. He's fanning the flames of xenophobia and Islamophobia and the American people are speaking out against it.

Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little) out of books, and invested me in the lives of others and the world around me.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

Life is a fight. Don’t let it overwhelm you. Adapt, and combat every situation it throws at you.