... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

True enough. I say this all the time.Trez looked at his hands. “I didn’t ask for this.”“No one asks for life.” The executioner hiked iAm’s body up higher. “And sometimes they do not ask for death...

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.

Every storm runs, runs out of rain

In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.

There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out.

The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.

Аrt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil.

That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.