In difficult moments it’s sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can’t, move on to the second best thing.

Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy.

I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it, therefore...it's in the stars!

Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.

The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands.

You never know whose tough day you will brighten with a few kind words. Tweet your positivity today!

We are one people until you decide we are one person in the churning sea of humanity.

Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Challenges mean opportunities as well.

You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

There is another world, but it is in this one.