I trust that absolutes have gradations.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

When you get ill do not get nervous about it and try as much as possible to be hopeful.

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

Most of you Mistborn are probably too proud to crawl. I'm surprised you were willing to do so your

Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there.

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.

It's impossible to measure the type of mental strength and determination that's required to be an elite wrestler.

Be prepared and be honest.

The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.