Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

De temps à autre, il est bon de faire une pause dans notre quête du bonheur et d'être simplement heureux.

People are of 3 categories

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves.

You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.