Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

To be happy, make others happy.

The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and laboriously compiled, is made the instrument of man's destruction.

A man is just as sensitive as a woman because we are all human.

In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.

Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.

The big talent is persistence.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.