Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.

Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

Even on health care what you've seen is a lot of stories surfacing lately about people who said, "Well, I voted for [Donald] Trump but I don't think he's really gonna take away my health care."

When a kid plays football before he attends a class, something is wrong.

You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Where there is no compassion, crime increases.

He who makes time precious lives forever.

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.