Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.

We can love and do righteous acts only by grace.

The power of belief is that is should change lives not create chains.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology.

It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.

Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.