a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Nature always levies her tribute.

The seasons run with swift feet.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

The record must be hurled like a stone under history's wheel in order to stop it.

I hate traveling with amateurs.

You are precious and special possession of God.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.

The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.

I was just really happy to see Barry [Jenkins] and Mahershala [Ali] and everyone else involved with "Moonlight" get their moment.

There will be no communism.

Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.