Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Don't ever permit anyone or anything to sail the ship of your life. No one can be a better captain of your ship than yourself. But you must not ignore to listen to your positive inner voices.

The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

You can never make a woman happy, it's impossible. I've never met a happy woman in my life. They're always complaining about something.

There wasn't enough chocolate in the world to make this better.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money.

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.