Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Sometimes death is just the beginning

Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity.

Terrorism is just a whole other level of anger management issues.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society.

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.

I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.