It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

Your attitude is a mirror of your believes.

Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.

In Wyoming, the beauty of our mountains is matched only by the grit of our people.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.

Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time spent in the library adds to one's wealth as a writer or artist.

Steroids, used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.