almost all novels are love stories.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Never put off writing until you are better at it.

Why we love with close heartsWhy we love with souls apart Let the love flow from hearts to souls, Let the world glow

The question to always be in your inner dialogue, asking yourself...is it kind?

Fall in love with the habit of learning from the great successful people who came before you, so that you don't spend the rest of your life as a stranger to success.

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.

Saying you want to escape is the easy part; actually figuring out how to do it is not quite so simple.

Design is all about learning from doing, that’s how we evolve to the best solution.

I have to be careful when I'm around sweets.