Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Learn to love and broke man to marry a good man.

(…) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' (…) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness.

The moment you try so hard to forget becomes your sharpest memory.-Tara

Achievement requires a strong will, failure, a stubborn won't.

I figure, if the mind just 'has' to be busy, why not make up happy shit?

You have the approval of yourself. That's quite enough for we who know true inner peace! - Charmainism

My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders.

All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.

I'm at a point in my life where I could make 20 more movies, but I want to make 20 more movies that matter to me.

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.