Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

Even in solitude, silence stays, like a loyal supporter, with its unbroken presence.

Marry the person who gives you the same feeling you get when you take the very first sip of COFFEE in the morning!

A fierce hatred of embarrassment ruled a surprising amount of the life of Moses Malone, the Hall of Fame basketball center.

Not all women will fall for every man, but some women will surely fall for the right man.

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.