I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.

Sometimes you really want to say "Duh, " but you can't. It's a part of growing up, I guess.

Talent is something you bloom, Instinct is something you polish.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.

For every curiosity headline that succeed in getting results, a dozen will fail.

Working with Gabby [Sidibe], I realized immediately that she was amazingly talented. I could tell just by the way she'd get into the role.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

Yeah, I know, but word came from Artemis herself that she wanted him here. Looks like we’re having a psycho reunion this week…Oh wait, it’s Mardi Gras. Duh. (Talon)