It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured.

Hell itself is truth known too late

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

I'm a tough coach, but on the other side of that is me telling them to go all out, "because you're great, because I don't want you to fail, because you were born to do this and you have a dream."

There was a time there when I thought going out was so fun. I don't know how it happens, but suddenly that's not a priority anymore.

I've become a lantern bearer, lighting the path this country will take.

Through the picture, I see reality; through words, I understand it.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.