He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Once you make a journey to a near impossible destination, you get to realize how everything and anything is possible

I made the decision. I'm accountable.

The profits of good luck are perishable if you build on fortune you build on sand the more advancement you achieve the more dangers you run.

I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you.

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?