No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to.

I am glad to be here to create a new history in our industry. I'm very proud of this.

We're playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerrilla.

Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic.

I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - Silver Bells and Follow the Stars Home.

To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out about the world?

I like my life alone.

You can't allow everybody in London to know that the undead exist.