A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

So you see, I already have everything I want. And what do you get the man who has everything? Why, you get on your knees.

Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end.

Orchestrating a diversified team can indeed enhance the higher level of harmony.

Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts.

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.

'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one.

A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than screaming.

I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody.